Edward Zwick Quotes
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
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Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
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By 1954, as an assistant professor with a group of three graduate students, I was able to initiate more complex experimental projects, dealing with the structure, stereochemistry and synthesis of natural products. As a result of the success of this research, I was appointed in 1956, at age twenty-seven, as professor of chemistry.
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Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?
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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
