Bob Bergen Quotes
I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.
