John Zimmerman Quotes
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.
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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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I'm not one of those guys that's a purist when it comes to videogames.
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Scars. A sign that you've been hurt. A sign that you have been healed. Had I been hurt? Had I been healed? Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
