Leslie Moonves Quotes
I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
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I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
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I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.
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The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
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I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.
