Lawrence Timmons Quotes
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'
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Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around because he is a great superhero. He's the guy that spawned the entire genre, and that didn't happen because it was a mediocre idea.
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Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.
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I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.
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I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.
