Joe Penny Quotes
If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.
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It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.
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Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.
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Prayer is so complicated.
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The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
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If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.
