Stephen Graham Jones Quotes
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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This is for my peoples who just lost somebody,your best friend, your baby, your man or your lady,put your hand way up high,we will never say bye,mamas, daddies, sisters, brothers, friends and cousins,this is for my peoples who lost their grandmothers,lift your head to the sky,cause we will never say bye.
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There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
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Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to Warren Buffett, that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.
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You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.
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For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
