Maynard Webb Quotes
I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.
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I'm cranky.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.
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I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.
