J. B. Handelsman Quotes
You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
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Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.
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You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.
