Jesse Schell Quotes
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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I can always go back to education.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
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If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
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Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.
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Games have no other purpose than to please.
