Howie Mandel Quotes
My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.
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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
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p. 103
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I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
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Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
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A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
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My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
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My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.
