John Paul Jones Quotes
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances.
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
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I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
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I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
