Spencer Wells Quotes
Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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We came to a side road, and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.
