Jan-Michael Vincent Quotes
I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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More than the Grave is closed to me -The Grave and that EternityTo which the Grave adheres -I cling to nowhere till I fall -The Crash of nothing, yet of all -How similar appears -
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There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.
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I'm lucky to have a job where I can bring my kids to work. I love the days they come visit me on set. My goal is and has always been to do work that my kids can be proud of - to set a good example for them. As long as I can still spend quality time with my kids, I'll continue to do what I'm doing and hopefully make them proud.
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When is a man free? Now when he is driftwood on the stream of life... free of all cares or worries or ambitions... He is not free at all... To be free in action, in struggle, in undiverted and purposeful achievement, to move forward towards a worthy objective across a fierce terrain of resistance, to be vital and allow in the exercise of a great enterprise - that is to be free, and to know the joy and exhilaration of true freedom. A man is free only when he has an errand on earth.
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I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
