Bob Thomason Quotes
I couldn't be prouder of the guys that participated the last two years. They set a great standard for our program. They're great role models and great kids.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
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Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he approached me, and I didn't sign him. Shame on me.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.
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I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.
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I couldn't be prouder of the guys that participated the last two years. They set a great standard for our program. They're great role models and great kids.
