Edward Lazear Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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There is no story that can't be improved by adding zombies.
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One day Eugène Boudin said to me, '..appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky'. I took his advice and together we went on long outings during which I painted constantly from nature. This was how I came to understand nature and learned to love it passionately.
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One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.
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Over a longer period of time, it would be a significant problem.
