Dick Wolf Quotes
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.
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To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’
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When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
