Lew Wasserman Quotes
I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
