Zelig Pliskin Quotes
We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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Caffeine is a good thing.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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I want to work with great directors and tell great stories - storytelling is the one great love of my life, and it means so much, and we have the ability to change the world by telling stories, and I want to keep doing that.
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I worry unnecessarily.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude.
