John Jay Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
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We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm just a fan and have been one since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had, even though I'm sure I'm probably older than him.
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We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.
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Those who own the country ought to govern it.
