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 went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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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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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
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I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
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I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.
