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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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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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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Bring out the eyes.
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I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
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There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
