Jason Day Quotes
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
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For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.
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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
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'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
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Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
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If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
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My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.
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My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
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Death is just life's next big adventure.
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Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
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The trade-off between speed and image quality is a key constraint of first-person action games, and the job of developing a workable engine involves constantly optimizing both elements. Gamers dream of the day they'll be able to haul their arsenals through three-dimensional environments of photographic clarity, playing 'Myst' with a meat ax.
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From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.
