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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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.
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Always look for your lost ones in trashcans.
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When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.
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I still have yet to accomplish what I've been trying to do from Day 1.
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Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
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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.
