James Sinegal Quotes
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
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The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.
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Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.
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One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
