Jordan Gavaris Quotes
I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
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Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
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It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one.
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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.
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Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.
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I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
