J. K. Simmons Quotes
It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.
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Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.
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I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.
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What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
