Gary Owens Quotes
Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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It would be great if people could guess right off that I am Japanese-Finnish-American. But then I'd have to be wearing a kimono and pulling a reindeer.
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People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.
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Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.
