Om Malik Quotes
The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.
