Jon Oringer Quotes
I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.
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I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
