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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A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.
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I love the dark comedy in 'Breaking Bad.'
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I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
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Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?
