Michael Ovitz Quotes
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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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.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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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.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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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.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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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.
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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.
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The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today.
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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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.
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Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
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I felt at some times Kobe might have taken advantage of our flexibility.
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We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.
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If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
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Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
