Jacob Lew Quotes
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
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My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.
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Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.
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Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
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Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.
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Why does this not occur routinely? Don’t we all know how to ask questions? Of course we think we know how to ask, but we fail to notice how often even our questions are just another form of telling—rhetorical or just testing whether what we think is right. We are biased toward telling instead of asking because we live in a pragmatic, problem-solving culture in which knowing things and telling others what we know is valued.
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Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
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Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
