Nancy Thayer Quotes
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
