Eric Ladin Quotes
To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
