Jeff Kober Quotes
Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.
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You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.
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Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.
