Joshua Ferris Quotes
All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
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When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
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You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
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Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.
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I am a big fan of Chad Johnson. I think that I would compare myself to him as well.
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I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
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I'm just a consequence of the great musical momentum and the great changes we are going through in the world.
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What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.
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I'm so OCD about prep work and learning lines and stuff.
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Once I know a song really well, I can then have fun dancing.
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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.
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All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.
