Joe Bob Briggs Quotes

I made the mistake of watching 'A.I.' on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

  

  Ted Turner
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• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

  Olesya Rulin
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• The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

  

  Samora Machel
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• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
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• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
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• I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
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• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
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• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

  

  Margaret Whiting
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• If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

  

  B. B. King
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• I made the mistake of watching 'A.I.' on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
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