A Quote by Jeff Giles

When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.

Jeff Giles

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Bets Budgets Effort Hedge Junk Out Rigor Rigor Mortis Salaries Sets Skyrocket Then Turn

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Jeff Giles
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Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

Dan Harmon

In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.

Kiersten White

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

J Allard

The 2017 general election showed how quickly support can skyrocket.

Clive Lewis

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.

Smedley Butler

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

Barack Obama

Goku: But I'm so hungry, I have rigor mortis!

Kazuya Minekura

It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.

Jimmi Simpson

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Maggie Kuhn

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

Bill Jay

A lot of bands, they'll try to jump on the bandwagon or the fad or the fashion, and they'll skyrocket, have this quick overnight fame. But as soon as that fad or fashion changes, they'll go out with it.

Mike Portnoy

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Robert Heilbroner

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

Isaac Marion

Acknowledging the unproductive thoughts and ineffective behavior that you've tried to ignore can be uncomfortable. But, stepping out of your comfort zone and choosing to proactively address bad habits will skyrocket your ability to create long-lasting change.

Amy Morin

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

Tom Robbins

A lot of bands have intense names, like "Rigor Mortis" or "Mortuary". We weren't that intense, we called ourselves "Injured". Later on we changed it to "Acapella" when we were walking out of the pawn shop.

Mitch Hedberg

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