Jerry Jones Quotes
When I look back on my life, I overpaid for my big successes every time. And when I tried to get a bargain, get it a little cheaper or get a better deal on it, I ended up usually either getting it and not happy I got it. Or missing it.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.
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I have great memories.
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China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.
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The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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When I look back on my life, I overpaid for my big successes every time. And when I tried to get a bargain, get it a little cheaper or get a better deal on it, I ended up usually either getting it and not happy I got it. Or missing it.
