Leon Charney Quotes
Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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My family are my friends.
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The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
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I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites.
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
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I have strong reasons for being a Democrat. Basically if you want true fairness in society, you want to give a voice in the corridors of power for the people who otherwise would not have it, I believe that will come from the Democratic Party.
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Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
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Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.
