Brad Schneider Quotes
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I've never been a partier.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
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I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
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Don't be afraid to learn on the job. No matter how much preparation you've done, the tech industry is changing so fast that we're all learning every day.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.
