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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And why was it that some guys had tears in them and some had no tears at all? Different boys lived by different rules.
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It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.
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From my mom and dad, because they're happily married for a long time: Just listen. Listen to him. I'm so independent and driven and stubborn. Just let him talk. It's about not being so stubborn and having to win every argument. My parents set a great example. They love each other and take care of each other so much.
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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.
