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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To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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It's great having time to just sit back and work through things in my mind. It helps put life into perspective.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
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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.
