John Naisbitt Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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I'm an outsider.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
