Dick Wolf Quotes
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.
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I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.
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I ain't mad ma, see you on ya bummy swag I'm in that money green Jag, lot of money bags
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If you look from my point of view, that's what Christians strive for - love from God.
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I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
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The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
