Jerry Weintraub Quotes
I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.
Quotes to Explore
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I think I need security.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'
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I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
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I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.
