David Perlmutter Quotes
Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
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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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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Clytemnestra: He collapsed, snorting his life away,spitting great gobs of blood all over me,drenching me in showers of his dark blood.And I rejoiced-just as the fecund earthrejoices when the heavens send spring rains
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
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I have a very short attention span.
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Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
