Ryan Tedder Quotes
As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.
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Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.
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People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.' Just as in life, success demands commitment and commitment demands a positive winning attitude. I told all the guys who came into our Cup campaign that if they were going to make the grade they needed three essential ingredients: attitude, attitude and attitude. I wanted commitment to the commitment. When they finally made the crew, some of them joked that they ought to be committed for their commitment to the commitment.
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As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.
