Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them.
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I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.
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If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
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You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock.
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Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.
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The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.
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The rules that have been imposed, the rules that are already on the books haven't been effective. If you look at the places where the strictest gun control measures, whether it be California, Los Angeles, Barack Obama's home state in Chicago, they're a disaster, and they have the greatest rules in the world.
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One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.
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I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
