John Warnock Quotes
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
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I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.
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I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.
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I was 100 percent tomboy. I had the biggest Big Wheels.
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We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color.
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The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
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Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
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One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.
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I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.
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Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
