Jay Hernandez Quotes
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.
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Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.
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I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
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I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
