Alyson Stoner Quotes
I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.
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A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
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A high openness score means you're open-minded - you see the world for what it is - whereas a low openness score means you're incredibly closed-minded, and you see the world the way you want to see it, regardless of what is actually going on.
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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash - I love that strangeness.
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I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.
