Jason Blum Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
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I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
