John Battelle Quotes

Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.

John Battelle

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To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.

Jesse Ball

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It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

Jesse Plemons

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Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.

Jenny Scheinman

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People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

John Cornyn

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The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

Andrew McCarthy

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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Amy Chua

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There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.

Sterling Knight

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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

Mike Figgis

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If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

Jose Canseco

WorldYouLookOurCritique

I chose to be this guy. It's who I want to be, and it's always been me - just keepin' it country.

Jon Pardi

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