Jeremy Collier Quotes
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.
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Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
