Jean Paul Quotes
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.
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I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.
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It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
