Mark Hall Quotes
It is true the risk for travel is greater for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.
Quotes to Explore
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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'Sicario' is about how the Western world reacts toward problems outside of its borders. Should we become monsters in order to fight the monsters? It's not about the cartels. The movie could have been set in Africa or the Middle East.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
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It is true the risk for travel is greater for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.
