Bob Lefsetz Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
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I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's fucking PSYCHOTIC!
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To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
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I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.
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We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
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Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.
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On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
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I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.
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The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.
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Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work.
