Jessica De Gouw Quotes
When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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We all get self-centered.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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There's no pensions for old prize fighters.
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When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.
