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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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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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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I don't feel like we missed an opportunity. We'll have better opportunities as we go along. We're figuring out how to play against them.
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In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.
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As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
