Dave Genn Quotes
You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
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What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.
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I will not be deterred from my mission of helping kids in this country.
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When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.
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Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.
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I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
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You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.
