Brett Ratner Quotes
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or 'incentives' for skill.
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It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label 'Lebanese,' preferring the less restrictive 'Levantine' designation.
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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
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I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.
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If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'
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Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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I don't have any regrets.
