Nicolas Roeg Quotes

'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.

Nicolas Roeg

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Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.

Jimmy Iovine

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I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others.

Jen Lancaster

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When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

Anchee Min

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When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

Andre Geim

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I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

Meghan O'Rourke

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Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

John James Audubon

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A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

Matthew Lesko

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I was very adept at acquiring languages.

Anna Held

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There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

Jeff Gordon

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Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

Robin S. Sharma

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I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

Rolf Harris

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My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.

Mike Lee

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