Jay London Quotes
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God bless nannies.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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I always remember this neighbor who would ask me to babysit for her. She looked like Jayne Mansfield, and I remember babysitting for, like, five hours and she would pay me 80 cents, with a phony smile. I used to go home fuming to my mum.
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If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
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It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
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When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in 'The Partridge Family' alongside me, so we worked together for years.
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I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.
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My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.
