Trick Daddy (Maurice Samuel Young) Quotes
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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By and by an obscure individual, a young man, rose up, and, in the midst of all Christendom, proclaimed the startling news that God had sent an angel to him;... This young man, some four years afterwards, was visited again by a holy angel.
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I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.
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The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
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Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
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In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.
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Some people around you don't mean you good.
