Jack Valenti Quotes

There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

Jack Valenti

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• What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Media

• It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Long
  • You
  • Possible

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Need
  • Research

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • World
  • Future
  • Want

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Like
  • Youth
  • Noise

• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Character
  • Communication

• I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Live
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Political
  • Practice
  • Doctor

• I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Women
  • Amazing

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Job
  • Career
  • Funny

• In the last 'Batman' movie, they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban.' It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Movie
  • Small
  • Me

• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • High
  • Value
  • Friendship

• The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Sick

• I am still at the crease, though the bowling has been pretty hostile of late. And in case anyone doubted it, can I assure you there will be no ducking the bouncers, no stonewalling, no playing for time. The bowling's going to get hit all round the ground. That is my style.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Style

• I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Emotions
  • Hide
  • Poems

• What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Want
  • Hard
  • Target

• For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Existence
  • Nation
  • State

• After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

  

  Ellen Tauscher
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Real
  • Winning

• There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

  

  Jack Valenti