Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
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April is the cruellest month.
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.
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Comfort is key for me. I'm a bigger guy, so whatever fits is nice, too.
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I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
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For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'
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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
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As leaders, we've all seen the painful effects of team members not keeping pace with company growth - it's called up-leveling, and it's all too common when a company goes from zero to something to hopefully an IPO.
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I thought we gave it away. I don't know what else to say. We gave away points today to a team in our own division. It's unacceptable.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I wanted to be a race car driver when I was a kid.
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The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.
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If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.
