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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• Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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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.

  

  Nat Wolff
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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.

  

  Ted Cruz
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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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
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• I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

  

  Nat King Cole
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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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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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.

  

  Madhur Mittal
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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.

  

  Kate del Castillo
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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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• I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

  

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• Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.

  

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• [Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

  

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• The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

  

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• People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Good
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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.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Life
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