Jean Paul Quotes
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Quotes to Explore
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I have many, many gay friends.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'
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I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
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'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
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Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff
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I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.
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George Hearn taught me that you learn that there are roles that are Tony roles and roles that are not.
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Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
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I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.
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I hate hateful people.
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As new technology emerges as the greatest challenge to novels since the advent of film, it may be that the fragmentation of storytelling into installments key to Dickens's era will be recreated in some way.
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It's frightening to think with modern medicine and all the technique available to them they can't really help you. In the old days, you know, you were better off because nowadays, they are all specialists. Everyone's becoming better and better at less and less. Eventually someone's going to be superb, at nothing.
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I suppose the "dilemma" might come up if I see a black athlete from the U.S. squaring off against a white Canadian athlete. Who do I want to identify with? I certainly will not and cannot say that race determines how I see competition. I'm certainly aware of how race plays into the way others see and portray competition some times, but I don't have to invest in it that way myself. Unless it's boxing.
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I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.
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I gotta keep my wordplay and make sure I don't lose nothing.
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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
