Jimmy Gomez Quotes
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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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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.
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No one will ever believe that both your hard drive and mine crashed within a week of each other.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
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I want to work on environmental issues.
