Jake Arrieta Quotes
When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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I think that some works are more accessible than others.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'
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When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.
