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Marshall Field Quotes

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1834 - January 16, 1906

Topics

Opportunity Man Control Exercise

Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.

John Cameron Mitchell

Mom Looking Boy She Monsters Quest

If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.

Jeremy Grantham

Good People Saying Facts You Know

Working on 'Downton Abbey' is amazing, but there's an ensemble cast of between 18 and 21 actors. With 'Love Life,' there are two couples and a few other key characters. As a smaller unit, you've got to take more responsibility - at the same time, you can have more ownership of the direction it's going in.

Rob James-Collier

Life Love Time Responsibility Key

A lot of folks focus on using Twitter as a marketing tool. They'll have a bump that says something like 'Tweet about the NewTeeVee show! Use the hashtag #newteevee.' And that's great - folks should definitely do that. What gets us really excited, though, is when they go an extra step and start to transform tweets into TV content.

Great Focus Step Start Marketing Go

I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.

Name Real Him Something Almost Came

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.

Time Myself Back Reflect Being Give

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Christie Hefner

Law Journalism Go Expected

When I was at Marvel, they were in bankruptcy, which is hard to believe now with 'Avengers 2' out, but it was during the 1990s. It was a troubled place. Comic book sales were dropping. Work was scattered.

Work Book Believe Place Now Sales

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

Words Mouth Comfortable Always Out

I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care.

Care Feel Turn Away I Feel Like

I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

Anthony Levandowski

Fun Start Think Interesting You Way

My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win.

Great Boss Control Win Book Game

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