Jake Pavelka Quotes
My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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I've been training quite hard.
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It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
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Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
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Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.
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and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.
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My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.
