Jay Duplass Quotes
I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I don't like controversy.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
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I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
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Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.
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I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.
