Jeff Bezos Quotes
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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.
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One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
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If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
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You and me know, this is a wrap.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.
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Distances did nothing. It’s all here.
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I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.
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We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.
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I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.
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Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
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TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
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You have babies at home. And you have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we just need privacy and we need our respect. And those are things that you have to have as a human being.
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I never worked on the school newspaper.
