Jamie Zawinski Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.
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Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
