Jessica Jung Quotes
My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection.
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Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.
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If I could choose to have one superpower, I would want to be able to make everyone love everyone!
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My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.
