Jonathan Dee Quotes
More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
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Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
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If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.
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I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
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I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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When you write for someone else, you're being an actor, the feeling is the feeling of another.
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More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.
