Jason Statham Quotes
Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.
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Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.
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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
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Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.
