Jeremy Jackson Quotes
I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.
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I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.
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Statehood is not a model for economic development; it is simply a way to organize a federation. What statehood does in fiscal and economic terms is apply uniform rules of the game to all states.
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
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I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.
