Anthony Newley Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.
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Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
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There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit.
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I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.
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You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.
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The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.
