Eliot Spitzer Quotes
This is somebody who knows how to stand up to you and me -- who knows how to push back against special interests, who knows how to stand up when matters of ethics and integrity come to the fore.
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Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
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On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
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Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.
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I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
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It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.
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Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.
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P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!
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This is somebody who knows how to stand up to you and me -- who knows how to push back against special interests, who knows how to stand up when matters of ethics and integrity come to the fore.
