Alan Ruck Quotes
I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.
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I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.
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Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.
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I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
