Michael Ovitz Quotes
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I'm constantly playing video games every day.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
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The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.
