James Costos Quotes
I believe that my experience as an HBO executive responsible for global marketing and communications should serve our country well as we tell America's story in Spain and Andorra.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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No one is going to remember a second-place team.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.
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Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
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African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
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Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
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I believe that my experience as an HBO executive responsible for global marketing and communications should serve our country well as we tell America's story in Spain and Andorra.
