Josiah Strong Quotes
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
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I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.
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I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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I really enjoy the shopping and going out and getting stuff for other people. I could really give a damn about getting gifts for myself, but I really enjoy giving gifts.
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People say we live in an age of information overload. Right? I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?
