Bob Lefsetz Quotes
You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.
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I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.
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Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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Routine is part of coping.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.
