J. K. Simmons Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I like things simple.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
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I'm not a partygoer.
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You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.
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Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.
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Education is very important to me.
