Jason Priestley Quotes
Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.
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There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.
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Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.
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You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.
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To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.
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Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.
