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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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 just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
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It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
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The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
