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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The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.
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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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Once you produce a product and it goes out into the world, whether that's to a newswire or an agency or whatever, you don't have control over it.
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
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That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
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We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn't win, they gave you a free blouse.
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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
