Jerry Coleman Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.
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With plants, persuasion is better than force.
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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That home run ties it up, 1-0.
