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The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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Cycling is suffering.
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Me and a friend literally had the idea for Wedding Crashers and pitched it, and it was already a script. They go, "That's funny! You should call it The Wedding Crashers." It was almost exactly like that .
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I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.
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My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning to collaborate with more people, since photography for me is a very solitary process.
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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.
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I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization