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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I have a fiercely independent spirit.
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Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: 'I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.'
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
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One thing I encourage a lot of people to realize and do is to just have an adventure.
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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.
