Ray Nagin Quotes
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
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I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.
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We are prepared as a city to put on the best Mardi Gras that we have ever seen.
