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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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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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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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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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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There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
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You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
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I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.
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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.
