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"I think the key is - other icons told me this - you don't have to chase the money. The money is going to chase you. That's part of success. That's part of the blessings."
"The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out."
"Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was."
"Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose."
"What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future."
"Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future."
"The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time."
"Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth."
"Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting."
"Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man."
"A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes."
"The keys to life are running and reading."
"The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home, this is not technically a demonstration but merely "acting silly" or "behaving like an ass."
"Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way."
"Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!""
"The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are."
"The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping."
"I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child."
"I noticed while working on Green Lantern that the actor - albeit forefront in the film, obviously, and the key focus for the audience - is kind of the smallest cog in the machine when you're shooting."
"For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture."
