Joey Skaggs Quotes
It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I've traveled around the world.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.
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I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.
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It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
