Barry Silbert Quotes
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
