Constantin Stanislavski Quotes
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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On bad days, I like to wear something colourful so I strike attention. That's how I appear confident to others - and how I get confident.
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Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
