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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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 -
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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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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'When you think about it from a native plant perspective,' Oyster says.'Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.'
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Women and eating disorders have such a long history, but now I see it happening to gay men. And when it comes to anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, gay men are far worse than women. They take it way more seriously. 'Why diet when you can take crystal meth?'
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That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?
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Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.
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In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.
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Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.
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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.
