John Stossel Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
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Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.
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The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
