Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
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'Last Man On Earth' is just one of the most original projects I've ever been involved with.
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
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When I tell people that I am acting in Telugu, they ask me if I have to overact.
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There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'
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I'm not an Iran expert.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Jokes are used to hide the truth!
