Jack Valenti Quotes
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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I love fatherhood.
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When I first moved to Vail, it was like I was a little celebrity. You know, everyone knew my accomplishments. I was a young, fast teenager and making waves in the ski world. And it was really cool.
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I write plays about big, intense subjects.
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Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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I don’t know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.
