Neil Portnow (Neil R. Portnow) Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
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We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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I wasn't really fashion-conscious earlier.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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I like to read. Autobiographies.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
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We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.
