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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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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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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Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
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I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.
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Jack Harkness: There you go! I can taste it! Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle. Feminizes the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again.
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I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.
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The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.
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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.
