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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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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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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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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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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Basically, I want people to feel feelings. It's too easy to go through this world being told to keep our emotions in check, as if they inhibit us in some way or another.
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Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night
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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.
