William Bernard Ziff, Jr. Quotes
In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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I think the moment you try to make something for kids, you are making something really cruddy that even kids don't want to watch most of the time.
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.
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If people are making fun of you, then you're probably doing something right.
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The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail. No matter what we know they are there to support us and see us do well. Leaders are exactly the same.
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.
