Mehmet Oz Quotes
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
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But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
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My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
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I've never been a great one for technology.
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What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.
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In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.
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...the Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.
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There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.
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All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.
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Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.
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I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.
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On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
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I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
