When the Academy called, I ...

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
 Sam Walton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.