Jimmy Lai Quotes
I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29 - April 1995: 'Layne Staley Unchained'
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I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy.
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Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
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You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.
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Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
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I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.
