John de Mol, Jr. Quotes
Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
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In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.
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I went to college and did theatre. After that, I spent about three years in Seattle doing French theater and community theater and sorting it all out. Then I applied to graduate school and got accepted, so I started pursuing my master's in theatre at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.
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Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears.
