Danny Meyer Quotes
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
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My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
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I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
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You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
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The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.
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But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.
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The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.
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There is no advance without strife.
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I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
