Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, ... I think we'd all like to see baseball do this.
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The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.
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Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!
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I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.
