Daniel Lubetzky Quotes
One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
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With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.
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I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
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I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
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When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.
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What is happening with automation and globalization, that's not going away.
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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
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One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.
