Gary Ackerman Quotes
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don't have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
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I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
