Jack Valenti Quotes
Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.
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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best
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Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
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Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
