Jesse Schell Quotes
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
Quotes to Explore
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.
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I love interpreting other people's music.
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
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Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.
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Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end. The others, Ernst, Magritte, were all accepted into the critical fold as serious painters. Only Dalí held out till the end. He just didn't give a damn.
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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
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Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
