Joe Bob Briggs Quotes
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
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Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.
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It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.
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In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Che per amor venne in furore e matto,d'huom che si saggio era stimato prima.
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I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.
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Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
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If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We should see there is no difference between one person or another. Then our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people. Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God's light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart.
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Eleven dead bodies. One dead cat. No breasts.
