Ezra Hall Gillett Quotes
We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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I don't like controversy.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.
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Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.
