Jesse Andrews Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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It's always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that's what it's all about, man.
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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
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I never took creative writing.
