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 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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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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Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.
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Comrade Tassinari was right in stating that for a revolution to be great, for it to make a deep impression on the life of the people and on history, it must be a social revolution.
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Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.
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When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.
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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
