Dan Rosensweig Quotes
I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.
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I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
