Jay London Quotes

I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.

Jay London

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• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Innes
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• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

  

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  • American
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• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
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• We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
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  • Easy

• The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Humanity

• In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • You
  • Turn
  • Once

• If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Business
  • Think
  • Model

• This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Proud
  • Victory
  • Big

• Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Together
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• I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Eyes
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• I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Family
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• Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.

  

  Karen Elson
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• Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

  

  P. T. Barnum
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  • Music
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• If I become so convinced that ‘I’m always right,’ the logical conclusion of that often ends up being great cruelty and great violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Great
  • Violence

• What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • World
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• It is important for me to carve out time in my schedule to spend quality time with my family.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Frame
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  • Great Art

• I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town.

  

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  • Small

• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Angry

• Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Losing

• I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.

  

  Jay London