Jim Moran Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Remember...that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all, for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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Sport seems to be much more important to people than politics.
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Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.
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There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.
