Jonathan Mayhew Quotes
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.
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I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
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I don't like exercising; I'll be honest with you.
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Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?
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I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.
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Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
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In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.
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I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.
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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.
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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
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People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
