Eugene Jarvis (Eugene Peyton Jarvis) Quotes
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
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Diplo kept asking me who styled my 'What They Say' video. I was like, 'No, that's just my clothes!'
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
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If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.
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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
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I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'
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My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.
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Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
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It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.
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My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
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Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
