Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Quotes
We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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I've got to literally write my own ticket.
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People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.
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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
