Emmanuel Jal Quotes

When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.

Emmanuel Jal

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• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

  

  Harlan Coben
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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

  Hans Kung
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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.

  

  Odette Annable
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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  

  Gary Speed
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• Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

  

  Pamela Adlon
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• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  

  Otis Blackwell
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• My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

  

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• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

  

  Jack London
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• Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)

  

  Linus Torvalds
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• The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.

  

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• Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.

  

  Allan Sloan
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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Time
  • School
  • Fighting