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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The thing that I always try and say to young people starting out is your peer group is really the most important influence on your life because you are going to rise and fall together.
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It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
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Cooking is always very romantic!
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Any man who outgrows the myths of childhood is ninety-nine percent aware and convinced of his own mortality. But then comes the chilly breath on the nape of the neck, a stirring of the air by the wings of the bleak angel. When a man becomes one hundred percent certain of his inevitable death, he gets The Look.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?