Bob Iger Quotes
You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!
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But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.
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I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
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China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
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You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
