John Petit-Senn Quotes
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
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We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.
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I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
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The absence of theistic belief.
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Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
