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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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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You cannot rely on other people's support.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.
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I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
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I like for Sue Sylvester to be firing on all cylinders.
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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.
