Jeremy Gilley Quotes
When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
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When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
