J. J. Abrams Quotes
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
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The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
