Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.
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We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus.
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My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
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I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.
