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"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."
Years
"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
Cartoons
"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
Business
"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."
Idea
"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."
Being
"I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving."
Hope
"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."
Years
"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
Rejection
"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."
Marriage
"What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter."
Laughter
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