Ben Marcus Quotes

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

Ben Marcus

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The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, 'cause I was the one writing the stuff; I was the producer and mixer. I don't think it's any more weird than writing your autobiography.

Jimmy Page

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I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

Ann Powers

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Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one - NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is not the sum of doing multiple jobs but, instead, the sum of implementing paradigm-shifting changes that create new industries and solutions.

Michael Gerber

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Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

John Travolta

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I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

Steve Buscemi

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The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

Sidney Crosby

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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Tommy Lasorda

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If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

Jay DeMarcus

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At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

Donovan Bailey

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We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

Chris Martin

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