Jerry Jones Quotes
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
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There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
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When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
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I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.
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I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.
