Jacob Young Quotes
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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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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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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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Men go after me, and I choose among them.
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It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
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You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.
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I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.
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Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
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I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.
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Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.
