Zephyr Teachout Quotes
Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.
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Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.
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There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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I always feel that I compete with myself.
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Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
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I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
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We've got to go win basketball games right now to try to create who we want to be. And I think we're close.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.
