Jake Peavy Quotes
To be called a Cy Young award winner is something I could have never imagined ever happening to me. I'm just always amazed at the blessings that came my way over the years.
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Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?
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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.
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I like when people don't know what to expect.
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I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'
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When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.
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You are my evil spirit... you and the hard course world!
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
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I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
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What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.
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Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.
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The surface causes of environmental carelessness among conservative Christians are legion, including subcontracting the evangelical mind out to right-wing politicians and greedy business interests.
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To be called a Cy Young award winner is something I could have never imagined ever happening to me. I'm just always amazed at the blessings that came my way over the years.
