Lloyd Dorfman Quotes
The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
