J. K. Simmons Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I'll have ideas in my head of what I want to say, but I need a beat to inspire me. So I would just say something as simple as, "Can you try something at 103 BPM with a reversed hi-hat and use an electric piano?" And then it just grows from that.
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I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.
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Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
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There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
