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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.
I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'
Being unprepared heightens nerves.
I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.
No matter what pain, what hard things come to us in lifeβand pain and trouble come to all of usβno matter what dark roads we walk or poor choices we make, it is not the end of the story.
My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.
In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
In fact, a religion has two aims: one is to really make those who are good and go up through cultivation obtain the proper way; the other is to maintain the morality of human society on a quite high level.
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.
I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.
My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.
I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
