Adam Arkin Quotes
It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.
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Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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I never set money as a goal. It was a result.
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The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.