A. Alfred Taubman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
-- A. Alfred Taubman

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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
-- A. Alfred Taubman

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Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
-- A. Alfred Taubman

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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.
The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
There is a self-love solution for every challenge.
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?
I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

A. Alfred Taubman famous quotes

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