Jon Oringer Quotes

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

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• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

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  • Results

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

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  • Nature
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• I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

  

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• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

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• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

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• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

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  • Single
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• The devil made me do it.

  

  Flip Wilson
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• Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

  

  Patrick Ewing
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• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

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• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

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  • Flattery

• When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

  

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• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

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• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  

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• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  

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• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

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• Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

  

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• I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

  

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• You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.

  

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• I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

  

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• By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"

  

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• I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

  

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• There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • School
  • Kids
  • Science