Michael Ovitz Quotes

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

Michael Ovitz

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One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only get the facts right but represent the subject to the world in a way that insiders feel like it's an access port and outsiders can access it. If you're too insider, you block access to anyone else.

Max Joseph

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What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

John M. Grunsfeld

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Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.

John Higgins

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I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

Michael Bloomberg

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Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.

Steve Chabot

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Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

Steve Lacy

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If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

Sissy Spacek

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Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

Tony Snow

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Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

Treat Williams

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Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Tony Campolo

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I can go to all these cool places around the world, but when we land at YYZ, I'm like, 'Yes! It's flat. It's concrete. I'm okay with this; my people are here.'

Rupi Kaur

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Many people focus on the 4 percent rule, which essentially says that as long as you withdraw no more than 4 percent from your retirement accounts each year, the money should last you 30 years.

Jean Chatzky

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