John Paul Jones Quotes
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
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I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
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Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
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When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.
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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
