Earl Nightingale Quotes
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.
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God built the universe on numbers.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
