Brian Grazer Quotes
You have to know the weeds - to have lived in them - to delegate. I wouldn't want to be a leader who had never lived in the weeds.
Quotes to Explore
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.
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Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
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We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.
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If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics 'until later', don't think that you've 'gotten away with it so far'. Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.
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I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.
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You have to know the weeds - to have lived in them - to delegate. I wouldn't want to be a leader who had never lived in the weeds.
