Chris Whittle Quotes
I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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If I married him,I would not dare to call my soul my own,Which so he had bought and paid for: every thoughtAnd every heart-beat down there in the bill,–Not one found honestly deductibleFrom any use that pleased him!
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I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
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As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.
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Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
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I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.
