Warren Buffett Quotes
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
