Dot Jones (Dorothy-Marie Jones) Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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By decarbonizing the global economy and limiting climate change, world leaders can unleash a wave of innovation, support the emergence of new industries and jobs, and generate vast economic opportunities.
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'Things change,' says Mr Shimada. 'Is world's sad secret.'
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Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
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I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.
