Aaron Sorkin Quotes
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.
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In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.
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When ya gotta go Now we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder God. We are here to go.
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The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.
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It was Nick's voice Nick's arms. He turned me on my back and swam with me, pulling me to the bank.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
