Joel Courtney Quotes
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
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I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.
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I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.
