Dean Jones Quotes
You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success is not assured.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.
