Joe Jamail Quotes
It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.
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I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
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In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.
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It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.
