Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes
If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
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It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.
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Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.
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I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.
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The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.
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If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.
