Jonathan Tropper Quotes
We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
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It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
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There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he was making them during some of the most ominous massacres in Tasmania. Forrest was recording history but missing the human story.
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It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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For me as a midfielder, Paul Scholes was the best possible teacher. When people ask me my hardest opponent, I always refer to Paul in training. Facing him improved me so much because his astonishing quality gave me something to aim for. He never gave the ball away, he could nutmeg you, he could make you look a fool, his range of passing was remarkable, his touch and awareness, everything was top notch. Seeing Scholesy made you stand back and realize you had a long way to go, because he was awesome. Teacher Long People Training Quality Fool Realizing Awareness Remarkable Aim Ask Me Top Notch Paul Scholes Balls Hardest Looks Made Midfielders Notches Opponents Passing Passings Range Scholes Way Astonishing Asks Long Way To Go Long Way Seeing
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As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.
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There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process.
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People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
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Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.
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There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
