Jay London Quotes
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
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I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
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I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.
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You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.
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I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.
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Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.
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That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face
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I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else.
