Jonathan Dee Quotes
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Ice Cube -
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.
J. C. Chandor -
Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz -
To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
Queen Latifah
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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.
Sam Bradford -
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?
Pamela Anderson -
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.
Harri Holkeri -
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.
Alain Badiou -
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.
Maya Angelou -
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.
Mac Miller
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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.
Jimmy Buffett -
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.
Edward Furlong -
Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.
Marianne Williamson -
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.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
We are all slaves to the shining metal.
Douglas Jerrold -
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.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Granted that I must die, how shall I live?
Michael Novak -
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.
Flannery O'Connor -
Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.
Bram Stoker -
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
Marcel Proust -
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
Jonathan Dee