Jerry Della Femina Quotes
The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.
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I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
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I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
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The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
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The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.
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For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.
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There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
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I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that Albert Einstein was quite a violinist and in fact would perform a lot with symphonies. So if it's good enough for Albert, it's good enough for me.
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The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.
