Jonah Peretti Quotes
People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I love proving people wrong.
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He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
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We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.
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We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
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All rappers exaggerate.
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People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
