"He who does not move with the times is a dead man"

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Source : Vicki Baum (1980). “Grand hotel”

Vicki Baum

#Moving Quotes #Men Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?”
“I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.”
“I eat 6 or 7 raw vegetables every day, 4 or 5 pieces of fresh fruit. I eat egg whites each day. If I eat bread, it has to be whole wheat. I eat brown rice. I don't eat between meals. I eat at 11 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock at night.”

Source : Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.
“If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.”

Source : "America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO". Interview with David LaGesse, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.
“If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.”
“I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.”
“Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.”
“For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.”

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