Johnny Otis Quotes

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

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• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

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• I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

  

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• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

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• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

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• I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.

  

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  • War
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• I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

  

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• As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

  

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• When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Story

• I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

  

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• 'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.

  

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• Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
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• Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of 'Bunk,' asked me to come get involved in very early process when they wanted to make a game show.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Game

• In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

  

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• Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.

  

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• Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

  

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• I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.

  

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• It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.

  

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• We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

  

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  • Time
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• The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.

  

  Konrad Zuse
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  • Support

• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
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  • Learn

• This may seem like a harsh view of our culture, and there are certainly trends in other directions, but when we deal with culture at the tacit assumption level we have to think clearly about what our assumptions actually are, quite apart from our espoused values. The result of a pragmatic, individualistic, competitive, task-oriented culture is that humility is low on the value scale.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Humility

• When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

  

  Johnny Otis
  • Culture
  • Part
  • African-American