Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
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We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.
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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
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I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.
