Jack Kirby Quotes
I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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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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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
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I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
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Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.
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I couldn't get a job to save my life. That's why I wrote 'Road to Paloma.' That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that's how I got the role in 'The Red Road.'
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I still have a lot of moments where I don't feel worthy.
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I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.
