David Viscott Quotes
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.
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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
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Every human being is the natural guardian of his own importance.
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I tell myself that anyone who says he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Finished means complete, perfect, and I toil away without making any progress, searching, fumbling around, without achieving anything much.
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Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
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When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don't you miss Tyson.
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A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
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Preflight planners wanted us to stay in TV range so that they could learn from our results how they could best plan for future missions. I candidly admit that I knowingly and deliberately left the planned working area out of TV coverage to examine and photograph the interior crater walls for possible bedrock exposure or other useful information.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Lists have always implied social order.
