Jesse Schell Quotes
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
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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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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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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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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.
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My dream role would be to play a femme fatale in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
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There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife."
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It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
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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.
