Jason Calacanis Quotes
America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
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And let these tears, distilling from mine eyes,Be proof of my grief and innocency.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.
