Peter Orszag Quotes
Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
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If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
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The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
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You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.
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Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
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I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how to give myself dramatic-looking eyes and how to contour my cheekbones.
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My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.
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It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.
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I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.
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Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
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Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.
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Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.
