Jason Kander Quotes
To me, serving wasn't uncommon, and my service paled in comparison to so many of my friends who had done so much more. In my world - as a citizen soldier - I was surrounded by other soldiers just doing their jobs.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
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Our lives will never be the same without him.
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It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.
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To me, serving wasn't uncommon, and my service paled in comparison to so many of my friends who had done so much more. In my world - as a citizen soldier - I was surrounded by other soldiers just doing their jobs.
