Will Durst Quotes
When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Your style can be an artistic part of your personal leadership journey.
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The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win, flourish, and benefit, is intrinsic to business and even to capitalism itself, properly understood. But people don't understand it because we're not taught to think that way.
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Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.
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The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
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When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.
