Jason Bateman Quotes
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
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We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.
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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
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She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. 'Is this as important as I think it is?''Almost certainly much more so.''Oh,' she said, 'fuck.'
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It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.
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I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
