Ben Affleck Quotes
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.Ben Affleck
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
Ralph Marston -
I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
Carl Icahn -
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill -
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Valerie Plame -
No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
Barry Ritholtz -
When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
Kaskade
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
Walter Cronkite -
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount -
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
Patrick Modiano -
I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
Carly Fiorina
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
Kanye West -
I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
Tamae Watanabe -
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
Tadao Ando -
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer -
I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
Caitlin Moran -
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson -
I love my family; they're such great people and they really love what I do.
Wade Bowen -
I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.
Alessia Cara -
I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.
Jane Clayson -
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
Frederick W. Taylor -
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
Ben Affleck