Jessamyn West Quotes
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I can paint in jail.
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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.
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When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.
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No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
