Joey Skaggs Quotes
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I don't like allegories.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.
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Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.
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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
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When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
