Jay London Quotes
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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I like statement flats that can take you from day to night.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
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The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.
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People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.
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The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.
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I have my own grown-up versions of temper tantrums, too. I have a hard time not getting hurt when my kids have meltdowns.
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When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.
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I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
