Randy Lerner Quotes
I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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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 think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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I have no particular formula for staying private.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.
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Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.
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I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.
