David Stern Quotes
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.
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I called a bunch of the restaurants in my neighborhood that I had assumed served all-organic food, and so many didn't!
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
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Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.
