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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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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At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
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Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, "That's interesting." But I don't know what to make of it.
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I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
