Joel Siegel Quotes
Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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You have these kids trying to make these grown up decisions because nobody is talking to them. We're talking at them, but we're not listening to them.
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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?
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Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.