Jimmi Simpson Quotes
It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
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The first occurrence of the maxim dates back to 1906: Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften Bd. 116, Duncker & Humblot, 1906, S. 686
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When I go to these auditions, I feel like I have to prove myself 10 times over... acting is a challenge.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
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Full-body workouts are great for someone who can only train a few times per week, as missing one day will be less detrimental.
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It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.
