Jacob Lew Quotes
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.
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Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.
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Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.
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Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
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I am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a person's right to know. I believe that in the absence of the truth, all of us stand helpless to defend ourselves, our families and our health, which is the greatest gift we have.
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It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.
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There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.
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Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
