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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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
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If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
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I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.
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'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
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There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.
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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.
