Leslie Moonves Quotes

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

Leslie Moonves

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• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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• We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
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• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
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• I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
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• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Hate
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• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
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• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
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• I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Mind
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• I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Brother
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• Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

  

  Dallas Willard
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• We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
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• I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • Great
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• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

  

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• Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
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• I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.

  

  Matthew Perry
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• I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

  

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• I’ll bring colleges and industry together to develop new products in marine science, green technology, and medical devices, and to train our workers to fill those jobs… We need to get Rhode Islanders back to work.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Work
  • Job
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• The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.

  

  Saskia de Brauw
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it reminds them they're responsible in some way.

  

  Luke Macfarlane
  • American
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• I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

  

  Leslie Moonves
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