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There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.


David Knopfler

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GORDIE HOWE It might be time to do something different. There's something better out there for us.
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BEL POWLEY There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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GARY BURGHOFF David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how fun...
T. R. KNIGHT It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that....
SETH ROGEN If something comes out, you had better be ready, no matter how incorrect it might be.
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DAVID HASSELHOFF There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
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DAVID CASSIDY There's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are. It's a wonderful thing.
MATTHEW MOY There's nothing wrong with being comfortable in your own skin. If anything, it can be really bea...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a...
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QUVENZHANE WALLIS There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
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DAVID EINHORN During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr...
DAVID EINHORN I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g...
DAVID EINHORN I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
DAVID EINHORN My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh...
DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo...
DAVID EINHORN Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun...
DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to...
DAVID TENNANT I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up...
DAVID STRATHAIRN A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,...
DAVID LYNCH Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in...
DAVID HOCKNEY It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi...
DAVID HUME Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom...
DAVID WHYTE