Jehane Noujaim Quotes
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Actors don't have real value.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.
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I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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When I talk about the ability for fintech to promote kind of economic growth and productive citizens coming in, using different data and being able to lend to small businesses, see those small businesses start to grow - of course, that means more money for their families, you know, the small-business owner families. They start to hire people.
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In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
