John Jay Hooker Quotes
The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.
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If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.
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This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
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The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
