Victor Pinchuk Quotes
Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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There is no such thing as going on to something bigger and better than 'M*A*S*H' because there is nothing bigger and better. I have done the best I can do, and been in the best I could be in on television - with the best people.
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.
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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
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There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
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If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
