Jayson Williams Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
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When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.
