John Turturro Quotes
I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
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There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Jack: These last 2 miles were rugged, weren't they?
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.
