John Paul Jones Quotes
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Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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I hate exercising self-control.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.
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The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
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The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.
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My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
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I think every school in the world should have a sports program.
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!
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We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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Tom Ford does everything perfect.
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I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
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The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. And in a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.
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[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I have not yet begun to fight!
