"When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take."
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"Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face."
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"Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life."
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"Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value."
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"Cheryl [Hines] and I sat through two screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and during the second one, we said to each other: "You know, we don't have to get sad about this. Let's try to enjoy this. Let's just watch it. It's a happy movie [Waitress].""
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"Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology."
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"Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder."
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"The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all."
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"Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that."
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"We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much."
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"Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new"
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"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."
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"Obviously you can look at things however you choose to and I'm not proud of some people in sports, but I don't really look at it as my calling to be out there setting an example. I just try to treat people the way the I want to be treated - with respect and some dignity."
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"Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example."
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"What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience."
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"It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music."
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"We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out."
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"I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something on the computer, and I'll get stuck ,so I go to the help section. And it just enrages me, because why even call it a help section at all? There's nothing in any way 'helpful' about it."
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"A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!"
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"The work I'm doing today gets me one step closer to the work I should be doing tomorrow. And that the way I learn this is by trying, failing, networking and experimenting. I'll stop doing that when I'm dead."
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