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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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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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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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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I'm not someone who had to worry about aging on camera. I was already aged when I got there.
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In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
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Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
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I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.
