Jeff Bewkes Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
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You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.
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I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
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I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.
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I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
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The emphasis of the men’s group was on understanding, coping, changing the situation and then, if all else failed, getting out; the emphasis of battered women’s groups is on getting out first, and second, locking up the problem (the man).
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The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for centuries.
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I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
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Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.
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HBO is the original subscription video-on-demand company. We were repurposing first-run movies, and then we added original programming.
