Ken Venturi Quotes
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To be is to do.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
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There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.
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Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.
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Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.
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Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
