Jon Tenney Quotes
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
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If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
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Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
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We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
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I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.
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He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.
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'Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow'.
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It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.
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I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
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Deute den lieblichen Schein und mache Ernst aus dem Spiel, so wirst du das Centrum fassen und die verehrte Kunst in höherm Lichte wieder finden.
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It was not that the figure had been removed, not that the figures had been swept away, but the symbols for the figures, and in turn the shapes in the later canvases were substitutes for the figures.. ..these new shapes say.. ..what the symbols said. Rothko, explaining Seitz his new way of painting during the mid-1940s
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Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
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Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.
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I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.
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You bang that piano real nice.
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Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.
