Jonathan Dee Quotes
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?
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What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.
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Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
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But one out of ten is the really good one, something that I really want to fight for. And I usually have to fight for it.
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Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.
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My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.
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That all differences among the former Brücke members should be put in the past and that ..every individual conflict must be silenced and that everyone join together in the name of the whole, that is for our modern German art.
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
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The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
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I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
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Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.
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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
