Bernie De Koven Quotes
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
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This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
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When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.
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It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.
