Jerry Della Femina Quotes
Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.
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Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.
