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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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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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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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The 'Bourne' franchise means the world to me. I love that Universal wants to put one out every two years. Because it is a safe investment, I benefit from that on many levels.
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I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance... And the 'testimony of Jesus' will light up a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality, and communicate to my understanding the glories of the Celestial kingdom.
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We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving at Bernard's Leach studio. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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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.
