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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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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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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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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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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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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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've always been a bit of an outsider... I just pop up, kind of. I have a life. I have children - I have three children - and I love the craft of acting; I'm dedicated to that... that's always meant more to me than just hanging out... I've always been kind of a weirdo in that respect, but if the role is good, I'm going to do it.
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I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.
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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.
