Jeffrey Lurie Quotes
To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.
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I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'
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With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?
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To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.
