Edward Whitacre, Jr. Quotes
Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
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When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.
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That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.
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That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.
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Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.
