Sanford I. Weill Quotes
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.
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One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.
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For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
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What we eat will tell everything when it comes to our bodies, our skin, our hair, how we feel, your endurance for things.
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I think we are a product of all our experiences.
