Ira Sachs Quotes
Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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Age for me is just a number.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
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To have a natural, healthy glow, you need to spend as much time as you can outside - if you stay locked up in an office, it can take a toll on your mind and body.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.
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No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
