Jay Samit Quotes
For those that fear being taken advantage of by people working from home or on flexible schedules, I can say my experience is quite the opposite. Employees are so appreciative of these accommodations that they outperform their coworkers and are less likely to be poached by the competition.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Our president needs to focus on other countries - North Korea, Russia, and everything else that's going on everywhere else. I promote it; I like Donald Trump. I get sometimes what he says, and sometimes he needs to quit on Twitter. He needs to get off of it and focus on what's going on everywhere else instead of what's going on in the NFL.
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He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do artistically, visually, ... I wanted to be part of that vision. It seemed so beautiful and interesting.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'
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For those that fear being taken advantage of by people working from home or on flexible schedules, I can say my experience is quite the opposite. Employees are so appreciative of these accommodations that they outperform their coworkers and are less likely to be poached by the competition.
