Jack Valenti Quotes
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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Now, when building a show, I ask myself the question - like, 'Jumping off this table will be really cool, but can I do that eight times a week?'.
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I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.
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I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
