Brett Ratner Quotes
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
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When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.
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Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.
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I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
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Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.
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Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
