Andrew Forrest Quotes
The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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I would do anything that helps people do things better. Even if the Indian government comes to me for anything, I would be very open.
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The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
