Javan Quotes
Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.
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Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?
