Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
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Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?
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Sentimentality is probably the biggest enemy for the magazine business. You have to embrace the future.
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Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
