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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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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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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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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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.
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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.
