Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
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I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.
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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.
