Mike Medavoy Quotes
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
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I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.
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I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
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See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
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Politics is history in the making.
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice?
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Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.
