Jesse Andrews Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.
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I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
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The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living. Once they do, they can become a place for the presencing of the whole as it might be, not just as it has been.
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How is a boy’s mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father?
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In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
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Writing is more important than being a writer.
