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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
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You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
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It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
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Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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I don't like exercising; I'll be honest with you.
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I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
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You name him. I beat him.
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You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.
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The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.
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Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
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I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
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If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
