Victoria Jackson Quotes
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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I am somehow allowed by the universe to do exactly what I want to do to make a living.
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Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
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Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.
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We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
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You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.
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I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.
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I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.
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A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
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If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?
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At one level, happiness is an equation that has "needs met" as the numerator and "presumed total needs" as the denominator. One way to achieve temporary happiness is to invest more energy seeking to fill up the numerator. But another way, a more stable way, is to reflectively guard against the growth of one's denominator of needs, and to cultivate the habit of gratitude at the satisfaction of real and basic needs.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
