Adena Friedman Quotes
I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
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Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.
