Joe Wright Quotes

'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.

Joe Wright

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If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Robert Kiyosaki

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The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

John Ridley

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The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Steve Jobs

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What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it was something I could do. I won that competition, and I kept doing it, and I couldn't get a job in law. So I just kept doing comedy.

Ronny Chieng

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I created jobs. Russ Feingold, during that same approximate 30 years, what did he do? He built government. He built it larger and more intrusive.

Ron Johnson

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I believe I'm better looking as a dude than a girl.

Liza Koshy

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Words can come and go. Your acts are going to speak for themselves.

Javier Hernandez

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I really didn't want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can't miss shows, so I left.

Jon Lovitz

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I hated stand-up.

Debra Wilson

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There's no need to overwhelm yourself with thoughts, because you know that you're just as good or better than some of the players you're going up against.

Cobi Jones

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We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

Bob Filner

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I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

Anne Enright

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