J. K. Simmons Quotes
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
