Aaron Sorkin Quotes
People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
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Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union - to improve it is the task of us all.
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When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
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Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
