Jon Bernthal Quotes
I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
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There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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A theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
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They did not talk or want to talk. It was as if they were afraid to talk for fear of spoiling something beautiful. But Anne had never felt so near Katherine Brooke before. By some magic of its own the winter night had brought them together . . . almost together but not quite.
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The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
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I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
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You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.
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The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
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That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
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I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
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I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.
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The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.
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I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.
