Al Oerter Quotes
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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All children should have equal opportunities.
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Tasmania is famous for its shape, which is the same shape as the pubic hair region on a woman's body, which I personally don't identify with. Mine's more like a map of the former Soviet Union. Not to scale.
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I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.
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You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.
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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
