Jeremy Piven Quotes
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.
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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.
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Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
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I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
