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 did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.
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Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
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People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.
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Only good questions deserve good answers.
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I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.
