Jennie Finch Quotes
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.
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As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.
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I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
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As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
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In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
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When I lose, I take it very personally.
