Jacob Young Quotes
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
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I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
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My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.
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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
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Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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The psychotherapist … tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.
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It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
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Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?
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Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.
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Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.
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God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.
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People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.
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Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.
