Jeff Bewkes Quotes

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

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• Good comedy is ageless.

  

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• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

  

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• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  

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• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

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• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

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• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

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• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

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• If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

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• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

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• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

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• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  

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• I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

  

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• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  

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• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

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• All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

  

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• I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.

  

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  

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• The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

  

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• If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

  

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• Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

  

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• When you have three days to work on a scene, you can give all that love to the movie.

  

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• Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't want a clever, cultured ruler.

  

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• When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

  

  Jeff Bewkes
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  • Wall
  • Engineering