J. K. Simmons Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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I try to win every tournament.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.
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But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
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It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
