Jay Mohr Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is an agent that ensures the happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.
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The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.
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I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.
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When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
