David Amram Quotes
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.
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Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.
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I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.
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The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.
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You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
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Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
