Astro Teller Quotes
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
Quotes to Explore
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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I've never been a shy person. I've always been able to talk pretty well.
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I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
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I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.
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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
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You have to know where you were going in order to get there.
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Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
