Jason Blum Quotes
The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the ring for three rounds against a top amateur boxer at a much faster pace, and they'll lose a fight, and how bad is that going to make them look?
Mandy Bujold -
It's like watching a car accident, that reality TV.
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We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.
