Jay Ellis Quotes
I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
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I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.
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Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
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Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
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I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
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In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.
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I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.
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I am the land, the bones of the hills," he said fiercely, "I am the winter. When I am dead, I will come for you all in the coldest nights.
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I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.
