Jake Pavelka Quotes
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
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I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.
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I adored my father.
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I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
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I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
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Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established... In Israel our hope for peace never wanes. Our scientists, doctors, and innovators apply their genius to improve the world of tomorrow. Our artists, our writers, enrich the heritage of humanity. Now, I know that this is not exactly the image of Israel that is often portrayed...
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Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
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I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids.
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I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
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I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.
