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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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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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
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You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.
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If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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The same processes that generate consensus can be manipulated by a social group worker in a summer camp in the Adirondacks and by a Communist brainwasher in a prison camp in China.
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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.
