Rod Lurie Quotes

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.

Rod Lurie

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At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'

John Fairchild

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In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.

John Lithgow

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I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

Michael Graves

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I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

Simon Baker

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You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

Tony Blair

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The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the monthly jobs report. We have a ritual at the Labor Department - at 8 A.M., we gather around a table in my office, and the commissioner of labor statistics briefs me and the department's senior leadership on the numbers.

Tom Perez

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I believe that trying to deal with Donald Trump is like trying to play three-card monte in Central Park: it's not going to work out.

Tom Steyer

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Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Rodrigo Duterte

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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Minna Antrim

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We are a primary target for the Iranian regime... We won't wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we'll work so that the battle is for them in Iran.

Mohammad bin Salman

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I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

Dominic Monaghan

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There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

Christine Quinn

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