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Sheldon Adelson Quotes

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

Sheldon Adelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1933

Topics

Planning Intention Why Need Retire

Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

People Alive Try Dead More Mean

My freshman year of college, 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe 2011. I loved it, but there was a lot of hateful backlash against the black characters in the film.

College Black Loved Year Games Out

Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Martin Seligman

Good People Control Think Reality

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Michel Houellebecq

Poetry Influence Think You Said

I was working - just a regular working-class guy - but, at the same time, always aspired to do music.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Music Time Same Always Guy Working

NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.

Energy Giving Talking Boston Out Up

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

I Am Me Listening Think Picture Own

The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.

Work Love Music Culture Joy Me

Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

Life Mother Amazing Me My Life Most

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

Enough Go Understand Conservative

Coming from the theatre, I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns, and I get to be a princess or someone from the 1920s, or I get to wear showgirl costumes. I'm used to wearing a wardrobe that changes how I feel. It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often, the clothing can reveal so much about a character.

Character Theatre Feel Someone 1920s

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Sylvester Stallone

Action Revenge Interesting You Get

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