James H. Clark Quotes
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in - it's going to have a pretty dramatic effect on the price.
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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.
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Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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I just want to continue to play football and be myself.
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I have long been an advocate of school choice, but I also believe the problem lies with school administrators and union leaders who refuse to believe there is such a thing as a bad school.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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Children's lies are signs of great talent.
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Entrepreneurship is the key to emerging technologies.
