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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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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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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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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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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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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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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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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The most disappointing businesses, for me, are the ones where the people flat-out lie. I had one in Queens where I gave them a couple hundred thousand dollars and they started spending it on themselves.
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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
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I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.
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There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.
