Jack Kirby Quotes
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
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There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
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I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
