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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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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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 want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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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 people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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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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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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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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The world ultimately is what we say it is.
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Since too few Americans go to the polls, I say what this country needs is a bobblehead election, where voters will get free bobblehead dolls of their choice when they show up and vote for president.
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Harry Dresden: Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.
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If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
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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.
