Jerry West Quotes
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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The industry has been very warm and welcoming, especially since I am an outsider.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
