Jack Valenti Quotes
I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'
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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.
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There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.
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I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
