Jerry Robinson Quotes
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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I did a couple of American Express commercials.
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I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.
