Mickey Drexler Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
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I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.
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Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
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Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
