Jimmy Gomez Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Those who go along get along.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I always whip up chicken cutlets or something. Or I make chicken parm and pasta, or something like that.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
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People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.
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When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
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I want to work on environmental issues.
