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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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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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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As business leaders, we should not choose between profit or good; rather, we must choose to profit from good. And that requires connecting what we do with a purpose beyond profit - a reason to exist that meets our shared sense of 'doing good.'
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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
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I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
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I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.
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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
