Jeff Zucker Quotes
I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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I never grew up seeing women that looked like me in magazines or on TV and didn't feel like I had a place in the world of fashion. I am honoured to be part of that change.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.
