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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I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
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Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.
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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.
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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.
