George Tillman, Jr. Quotes
I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
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Whenever you have to figure out things that aren't explicit, like in salary negotiations, you see differences in how women and people of color succeed.
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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
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In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.
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I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
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I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
