John Jay Quotes
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.
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As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
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If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
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Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.
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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
