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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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
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The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though!
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A man (whom) the IRA were happy to do the job.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
