E. Stanley Jones Quotes
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
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I write in a small office at home.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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There's always a way - if you're committed.
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For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.
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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
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There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
