Alan Patricof Quotes
Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
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Art has to be reflective of our society.
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I don't need to impress children.
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If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.
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Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
