Bob Iger Quotes
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I'm used to putting so many things aside to be able to compete.
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Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.
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We've got many different sides of music to us.
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Everyone needs a lay-up at some point in life - just somebody to look out, something good to happen in your life to kind of push you forward.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
