Jimmy Webb Quotes
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
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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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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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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'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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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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Pretty uniformly, people want the benefits of bitcoin and the blockchain - near-instant transfers, globally available on any Internet-connected device, highly secure, and nearly-free value transfers.
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I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.
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I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
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From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.
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I know how to sell a brand and create excitement around something, and so when you combine those two together -entertaining and marketing - it's like things start to go crazy.
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You can plan for a hundred years. But you don't know what will happen the next moment.
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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
