Jake Peavy Quotes
Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.
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When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.
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Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.
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Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.
