Jenny Lewis Quotes
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I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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I was a total dork in high school.
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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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I hate picking out clothes.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.
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There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.
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You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players.
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There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.
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Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
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Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.
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Language is wine upon the lips.
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I'm typically not a heels person.
