J. J. Abrams Quotes
I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
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Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.
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The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.
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I thought he played great. He played well in training camp. I'm excited about it. We played well with each other tonight.
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The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
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I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.
