Joe Eszterhas Quotes
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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I love to perform live.
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Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.
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I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.
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Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
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When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
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I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
