Jay Samit Quotes

Microsoft first entered the living room with Ultimate TV way back in 2000 - a year before Apple's first iPod was announced. Ultimate TV offered consumers a DVR and supporting online services, including 14 days of programming and the ability to record 35 hours of programming. Microsoft's reach was then thwarted when Echostar acquired DIRECTV.

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• 'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • High
  • Plateau

• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Want
  • Fans
  • Hear

• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • You
  • Me

• I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Better
  • Work Hard

• I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn't need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it's this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Audience
  • Characters

• I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Culture
  • Style
  • Architecture

• I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • True
  • Girl
  • Day

• I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Man

• In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Political
  • Party
  • Winning

• Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Football
  • Questions

• The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Single
  • Attitude
  • Surprise

• The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Violence

• I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, 'Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?' And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Thinking

• I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

  

  Katheryn Winnick
  • Black

• Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

  

  Peter Guber
  • Feeling
  • Reading
  • Air

• If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Time
  • Emotional

• A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.

  Dito Montiel
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Microsoft first entered the living room with Ultimate TV way back in 2000 - a year before Apple's first iPod was announced. Ultimate TV offered consumers a DVR and supporting online services, including 14 days of programming and the ability to record 35 hours of programming. Microsoft's reach was then thwarted when Echostar acquired DIRECTV.

  

  Jay Samit