John Jay Chapman Quotes
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
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A good joke can work in New York and Kentucky.
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
