Jay London Quotes
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
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I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.
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I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
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If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
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I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.
