Dean Jones Quotes
I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'
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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
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I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.
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From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.
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You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.
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I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.
