Amy Heckerling Quotes
I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
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I really don't know anything about music.
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I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.
