Jon Oringer Quotes
To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.
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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
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To me, the money is – it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
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A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
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During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.
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To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
