Kurt Eichenwald Quotes
There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.
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My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
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Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
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I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
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There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.
