John Grierson Quotes
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
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WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.
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I was popular, and I enjoyed that, and my mother kept telling me I better take typing so I'd have something to fall back on. I didn't know what the future held, but once I got my law degree, I started to feel like, 'OK, I'm a serious person.'
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If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is this: They never forgot your generosity. They never forgot the power of opportunity. They never forgot the American dream.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
