Ezra Edelman Quotes
O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.Ezra Edelman
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson -
Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
D. B. Weiss -
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
Gary Wright -
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Quentin Tarantino -
I'm easy to hate. I get it.
Olivia Munn -
I like to improvise.
Iris Apfel
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
Dan Brown -
The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.
Mary Beard -
I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and - and employees from tellers on up. And I love it.
Jamie Dimon -
Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
Margaret Millar
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Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.
Jameela Jamil -
Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
Duncan Jones -
I want to raise up the next generation of young people who are going to run this community. I need for them to understand government and how it works.
Marcia Fudge -
Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.
Daniel Harvey Hill -
Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker -
I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.
Emilio Estevez
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The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
Natan Sharansky -
A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
Kate McKinnon -
I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.
Lauren Bush -
I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.
Jean-Pierre Leaud -
We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
Larry Hogan -
O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.
Ezra Edelman