James Sinegal Quotes
It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.'
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.
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Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.
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I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.
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It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.
