Mark Kassen Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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'Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.'
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'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'
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In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
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When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
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I'm emotionally unpredictable and all over the place.
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I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.
