J. K. Simmons Quotes
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.
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You don't choose. I just go where the work is.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
