Kevin Mitnick Quotes
I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I got lost but look what I found.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
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Just as the mighty sequoia would topple without a community of supporting trees, believers who seek transformation apart from a Christian community are vulnerable to spiritually topple in the winds of adversity.
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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.
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Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.
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There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.
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I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.
