James Lipton Quotes
I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
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I'm cranky.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I don't run behind authority.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
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Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.
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I really stay away from products that are not silicon-based, and I really stay away from parabens.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.
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I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
