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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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.
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I have a hard time listening to things I've recorded. I don't necessarily go back and enjoy it. Occasionally I'll have the iPod on shuffle and something will come on. Nine times out of ten I'll wince and go on to the next one.
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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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.
