Jason Reitman Quotes
I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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America is a meritocracy.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
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I don't think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.
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I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.
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I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.
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I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
