Jessie James Decker Quotes
I'm really proud of 'Coming Home.' I wrote that about Eric, and I just feel like it's very relatable for anyone who has to be away from their loved ones, you know, for long periods of time - our military, people who are working. It's pretty special.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.
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I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing.
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When I was a kid back in Kentucky, we went to this church where my uncle preached. It was kind of a weird Baptist, full-on kind of place. People kept running up to the pulpit and grabbing his ankles and being saved. Lots of crying. Even then, at six or seven, I questioned how pure the emotion could be if it were on such display.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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I'm really proud of 'Coming Home.' I wrote that about Eric, and I just feel like it's very relatable for anyone who has to be away from their loved ones, you know, for long periods of time - our military, people who are working. It's pretty special.
