Jason Alexander Quotes
We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70.
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'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!
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I wisely started with a map.
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Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.
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You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
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I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.
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Always my collections are made of different influences.
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We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
