Jake Peavy Quotes
You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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I love India.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
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In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
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Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
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I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.
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You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.
