Jimmy Webb Quotes
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
Quotes to Explore
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.
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In like a dimwit, out like a light.
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.
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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
