Daniel Okrent Quotes
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
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The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
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I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
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Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
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My Hindi is OK. I think I am better with Tamil. I remember the Tamil words.
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If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.
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I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny Goldsmith, where he talks about how he was scarred by how proud John Cage was to be ignorant of popular music. Goldsmith says, "Nobody thinks twice nowadays about listening to everything!" Something that had seemed so uniquely, radically syncretistic in Flynt's day seems much more commonplace now.
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The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.
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I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.