Nicholas Jarecki Quotes
I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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When you become a parent, that's a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it's going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life.
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I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.
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Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.
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I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
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Awards are for young people. They just are.
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I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
