David Sarnoff Quotes
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
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One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, 'Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.' That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, 'Are you going to finish that sandwich?'
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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I have my career and my family, and that's it.
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I don't intend to die.
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Who does understand life?
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.
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We always felt that being unbiased was part of the search mission, ... lets you peer over to see what everybody has got.
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Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
