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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And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age, she hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.
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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
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The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.
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I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
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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.
