Jacob Whitesides Quotes
I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
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I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.
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First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
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I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.
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I could get your brains for a bargain, like I bought it from Target. Hip hop is my supermarket; shopping cart full of fake hip hop artists.
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I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.
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I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.
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People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.
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I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
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A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.
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Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.
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It's great when improv is encouraged. It's a really fun thing. It depends on who's in the movie and how their process works as well. It takes a director who is open to that because you have a script, but then something funny could happen on set.
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I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.
