Jacob Latimore Quotes
You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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For your information, I would like to ask a question.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
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I came from a real working-class show business family.
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I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
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A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'
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Wealth, or large amounts of possessions seemed to him limiting. They brought their own prison with them. He preferred, since he had once known a kind of prison, to travel free.
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If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime.'
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Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.
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I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
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It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.
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Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.
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Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
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You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them.
