Cenk Uygur Quotes
Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.
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I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
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I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
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I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
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Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
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There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
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I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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Social media has definitely changed the game for me. I am able to connect to my fans on twitter and interact with them, daily. YouTube has been a game changer as well - people around the world have been exposed to my comedy through my YouTube channel.
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.
