Jock Sturges Quotes
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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The village idiots in her bed Never cared that her eyes were red Never cared that her brain was dead. In the hours that her face was alive It was a thing just to be by her side.
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Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
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In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.
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Trying to give back a little bit is important.
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The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
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My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.
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I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.
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Humanity is the equity of the heart.
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Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.
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A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
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Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.
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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
