Walter Isaacson Quotes
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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The cool thing about dope black style becoming in style is that the industry has no choice but to try and reduplicate that.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.
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Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
