Jack Valenti Quotes
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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Family photo albums are so powerful in that they make kids feel valued, cherished and respected.
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Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.
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I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
