Andy Kindler Quotes
I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
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I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.
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There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
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Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
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There is no doubt that Boulder was a supportive and open-door community well before TechStars ever existed. But one of the things that I'm most proud of is that TechStars has provided a real focal point for this sort of activity and has brought attention to just how impactful one community can be when it works together.
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I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.
