John Paul DeJoria Quotes
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.
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When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.
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Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
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Come, on, EMPTY-V!! As far as I'm concerned, Beavis and Butt-head and Dora (sic) are the only two good things you ever DID! wild applause from audience But can't you think of a better way to raise audience awareness of domestic violence, than to make it look COOL?
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Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.