Jason Gann Quotes
I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
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It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.
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I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
