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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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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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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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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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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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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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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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
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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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As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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To make a very specific car only for India - where you don't know where the segments are tomorrow or will it shift - is tough.
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If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that
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The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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When I lose, I take it very personally.
