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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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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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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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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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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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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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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The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.
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All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.
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One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
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Education is the key to the future.
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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.
