Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
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And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.
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I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer.
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I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.
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Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
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In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.
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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
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Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?
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...whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best.
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I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
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The best acting job in the world.
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We are to a large extent an imitative society.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
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Satan works through human agents.
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I've never been universally loved from the beginning.
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It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.
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And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.
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You can't forget where you came from.
