Jeremy Piven Quotes
I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.
Quotes to Explore
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.
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What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?
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A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'
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I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.
