Jake Arrieta Quotes
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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I don't like controversy.
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I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
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When you follow your heart's calling, you wind up becoming your most powerful self. You don't need to take power from others if you can tap into your own inner power.
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I like to play with tropes.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.
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We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
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The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
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You rarely see any blowout games.
