Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes
You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.
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Men don't pay attention to small things.
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Now people are really inspired to do a lot, and the fire got lit under our asses to be more politically aware and be more politically involved in our community and pay more attention to what's going on.
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To me, when guys beat you down the court, that's unacceptable. Randle's effort and energy, he's athletic and brings energy, certainly busted it open in that stretch.
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You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.
