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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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to keep people entertained because I'm just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there's a world waiting on us.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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Taxes are our main revenue, ... We have to rebuild the city by attracting working class families. To do that we need good jobs and affordable housing in a clean, safe city.
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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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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.
