Jesse Andrews Quotes
'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
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Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.
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Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.
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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
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'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.
