Dan Gilroy Quotes
I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
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Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.
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Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
