John Paul DeJoria Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I still have a young attitude.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it.
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Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
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Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.
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Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
