James Sinegal Quotes
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
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Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
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You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
