Jerry A. Webman Quotes
After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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I cook chicken for a living.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
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The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
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If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.
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Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.
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Paperwork will ruin any military force.
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It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.
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After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.
