Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
I've grown to love L.A. It was a really touchy transition. It was not the easiest. It took me some years to love it.
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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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Never judge a work of art by its defects.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
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I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
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Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I've grown to love L.A. It was a really touchy transition. It was not the easiest. It took me some years to love it.
