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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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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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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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
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The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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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.