Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. ~Friedrich Schiller
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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I am getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. ~Michael Reagan
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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If you can compete, you are going to compete. ~Earl Lloyd
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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