Joe Bob Briggs Quotes
If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I no longer limit myself.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.
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I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
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My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
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If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'
