Jerry Perenchio Quotes
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin their stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stopped. They refuseto be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
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I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.
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I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.
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As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.
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I'm definitely gaining new fans, and that's the key of any success... gain more love.
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I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
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John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously.
