Jeff Hawkins Quotes
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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I could never be a distance runner, because I can't run for more than ten minutes. There aren't enough iPod gigabytes in the world to make that worth it for me.
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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
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So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words
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A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
