Justin Simien Quotes

There was a time when a studio executive would really love something and have no proof at all that it would work and just do it because they believed in it. That's how 'Star Wars' happened.

Justin Simien

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Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

Jill Scott

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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Jean Rostand

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My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

Mary Oliver

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A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?

Jay Samit

BestWorldBlindYouTableRun

I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here.

Donald Evans

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So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.

David Shields

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The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

Chuck Hagel

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It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Bruce Perens

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If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

Brit Marling

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My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality.

Ashoke Sen

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Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

Peter R. Grant

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So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

Thomas Keneally

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