Gary Ross Quotes
There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.
Quotes to Explore
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
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I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
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There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again.
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There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.
