Marc Benioff Quotes
The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.
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It's a lot harder to reach people's hearts than it is to reach people's brains.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'
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The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.
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The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.
