Jack Valenti Quotes
There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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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.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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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.
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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.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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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.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!
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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.
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The moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
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A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
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The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.
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It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.
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I was just like Jennifer Aniston with Brad Pitt when he fell in love with Angelina Jolie.
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There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
