Antoine Fuqua Quotes
You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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The business of America is business.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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I'm sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I'm sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.
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The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
