Joel Rosenberg Quotes
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.
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I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
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Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.
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I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
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There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
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To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
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You are so funny to ask me about 'The Look'. I've been asked many times, and I really am not sure what anyone means.
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There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...
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I leave a people who received me as a son. That wounds a part of my spirit. I carry to new battlefronts the faith that you taught me, the revolutionary spirit of my people, the feeling of fulfilling the most sacred of duties: to fight against imperialism wherever it may be.
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..we will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves. So that, then we go down, what is it that is despicable in ourselves? And there are some elements despicable in ourselves, which we don't want to look at, but which are part of our natures, that we are mortal.
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When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
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Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
