Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes
On TV at night, I DVR lots of programs - I use it more like a magazine rack flipping through shows than actually watching them in full. 'Charlie Rose,' 'Meet the Press,' '60 Minutes' are musts for me. I also DVR 'NBC's Nightly News' and 'The Chris Matthews Show' on Sunday.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.
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I was absolutely blessed. And I'm really fortunate that my parents were there for me. And I hope that I can give back to society the way they have and the way - I just - I was very fortunate.
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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
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There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.
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The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.
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On TV at night, I DVR lots of programs - I use it more like a magazine rack flipping through shows than actually watching them in full. 'Charlie Rose,' 'Meet the Press,' '60 Minutes' are musts for me. I also DVR 'NBC's Nightly News' and 'The Chris Matthews Show' on Sunday.
