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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Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.
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It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.
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'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.
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It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.
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I think a lot of women are underestimated.
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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.
