Jim Messina Quotes
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.
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A playmaker, he makes that play. . . . If you are (screwing around) on one play, that might have been your play to make.
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You see very senior women leaving technology and the men stay, mostly because they feel quite isolated and are isolated by the very systems.
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My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
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When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn better posture. And the rest is history!
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We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.
