Daniel Okrent Quotes
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
Zack Snyder
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
Walker Stapleton
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
Eddi Reader
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
Larry Hagman
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
J. G. Ballard
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
Barry Diller
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim
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Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
Jack Keane
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
Abagail Johnson
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
Victoria Smurfit
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai
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Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.
Randy Lerner
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
T. S. Eliot
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If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.
J. J. Watt
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I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.
Famke Janssen
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
Eliot Spitzer
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An oak is no respecter of persons.
Aldo Leopold
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The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.
Brad Anderson
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People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!
Jason O'Mara
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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.
Daniel Okrent
