Nicholas Jarecki Quotes
I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.
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Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it would violate his teachers who still sat behind prison wire in Lhadrung.
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I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
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I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.
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I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
