Margaret Heffernan Quotes
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.
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Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.
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If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
