Jim Goad Quotes
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
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If I cared about what you thought, I'd be writing for National Geographic or something.
