Michael Ovitz Quotes
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.Michael Ovitz
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
Irving Ravetch -
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
Kate Bush -
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali -
I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
Irvine Welsh -
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
Tammy Bruce
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
Taylor Schilling -
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
Ice Cube -
Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
Ted Deutch -
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
Wallis Simpson -
What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.
Manning Marable -
Protest politics has been vibrant against Bush and the war in Iraq, but it's been intergenerational. This doesn't seem to be a resurgence of student activism.
B. R. Hayden
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The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
Anderson Cooper -
The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today.
Alexander McQueen -
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
Bella Abzug -
We're much more data-driven. We need to continually re-evaluate our forecasts and think about the prospects for the economy and make our decisions based on what the information is that's coming into our hands.
Ben Bernanke -
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
John Maynard Keynes -
There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.
Alisa Valdes
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In the near term, oil is galloping ahead and leading our economy. We have to corral the "horse" and gradually reduce our dependence on oil and coal, in their present forms. Green-energy investment is inherently high-tech, and we could lead in the next-generation energy technologies, as we did and do now with oil and gas. All it takes is leadership!
Wesley K. Wark -
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin Crisp -
Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can’t send any other way can be heard.
Phyllis Theroux -
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
Michael Ovitz