Simon Van Booy Quotes
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
