Jimmy Kimmel Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
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If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.
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A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
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You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'
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We are on a crazy strategy with our central bank. It's good to have alternative ecosystems. It's not that the dollar will go away, but we need other options if it crashes or wildly inflates.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end-when all else is dust-loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
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It was nothing that I think any one of us took on because it was a gig that was available. It was something that felt like a true passion and something that every single person brought much more than any of us could have expected. … I do honestly feel honored to be part of this group.
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
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Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one.
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I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
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I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
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My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some passages from it just to figure out who these characters are, how they talk. And I have a dim sense of what it's about and where it's going to go, but I know that's going to change, too.
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I can't be as flip as I once was.
