Dean Jones Quotes
If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
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I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.
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We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
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I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.
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My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.
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If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.
