John Hillcoat Quotes
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.
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Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.
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In the Bernstein Manual there is a short chapter on undercover work. The first line says, in capital letters, AVOID UNDERCOVER WORK.
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I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.
