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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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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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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You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.
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In this world, progress is for our descendants alone. They will have more of a chance than we did. All the beautiful things ever seen on our world have, of course, already been seen—are being seen at this instant and will always be seen—by our descendants, and by their doubles who have preceded and will follow them. Scions of a finer humanity, they have already mocked and reviled our existence on dead worlds, while overtaking and succeeding us. They continue to scorn us on the living worlds from which we have disappeared, and their contempt for us will have no end on the worlds to come.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?
