Jessica Livingston Quotes
The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
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I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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I never had a long-term plan.
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I love kids. I wanted more. I have two, but I would've had six or seven... I would have done that if I could.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.
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That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future.
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The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.
