Jonathan Silverman Quotes
I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.
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You have to respect your opponent.
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State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.
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I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
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Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
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I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.
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I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me.
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Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon.
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I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.
