Jason Chaffetz Quotes
When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I know all the critics.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I dress for men.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.
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I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
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I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise. Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.
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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'
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When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.
