Jay London Quotes
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.
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The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.
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People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics. She must be repudiated by the members of her own party. And if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling. And they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party.
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I dated a partially nude model, and she did a half-assed job.
