Jesse Plemons Quotes
I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.
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In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's interesting how screwed up it is in reality, because most people who receive assistance from the government are white, but not in my head or in my experience.
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Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.
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Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.
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You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
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I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.
