Jerry Coleman Quotes
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.
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I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.
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The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.
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If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.
