Barry Libert Quotes
Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.
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Perhaps there was a natural process at work here; a means by which the mind dealt with experiences that contradicted a lifetime’s prejudices about the nature of reality. People simple forgot.
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A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.
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You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.
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I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.
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Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
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Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.
