Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
