Lois Wyse Quotes
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
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You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.
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The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
