Jeff Shaara Quotes
World will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion…
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
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We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
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Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.
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To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
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Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
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I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
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I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.
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It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.
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Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
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I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
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My wife always tells people, 'He's not going to be able run to for anything because I'm not going to let him start a campaign.'
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Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.
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They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
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I'm good but not great at 'Madden'. I have friends that their whole life is based around this video game.
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If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
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My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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I don't really listen to my old music.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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World will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion…
