Jay Parini Quotes
By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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Music is always a creative process that comes from the heart. It's a feeling, a vibration, that we ride on.
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Give the park police more ammo.
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Digital has really made the fashion industry a lot more transparent. So people can see and understand how the industry really works, and participate in an industry that was very inaccessible to people. The only thing that people used to see before was the end product. Anyone can participate in it now.
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If I put on a few pounds, it goes straight to my butt.
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By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
