J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
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See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
