David Ulevitch Quotes
I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
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I used to set out and do a film and say, 'This is going to be the biggest film I've ever done.' But that's not the right approach. The approach should be the work.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
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The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
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I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.
