Jeffrey Jones Quotes
Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
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If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
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But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I missed you all my life,” Kylie said. “I didn’t know I missed you, but I know it now. You were supposed to be there.
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We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.
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Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.
