Alan I. Leshner Quotes
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
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The media is controlled.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'
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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
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I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.
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My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.
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The best thing that I can offer to people is just to be honest, and that's a rare quality. In doing so, I think there's always a top down feeling that permeates a working environment. If the boss is cool and he's a certain way that's not bullshitting, then everyone around is going to feel that comfort and try to be that way, as well. That's just who I strive to be, as a person.
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The Dover disclaimer brings religion straight into the science classroom.
