Steve Jones (Stephen Philip Jone) Quotes
It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
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As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
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My father was one of ten children.
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There are no sure answers, only better questions.
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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
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My sister and I were born in Chile and raised in the States, and my little brothers were born in the States and raised in Chile after my parents moved back in 1995.
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One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.
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There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
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I believe if we simplify the process of tariff-fixing with lesser tariff slabs and rationalise the process, it will reduce corruption, and simultaneously, it will enable supply of adequate and cheap power to the poor as well as to farmers.
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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
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Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.
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There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.
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When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.
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America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
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It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
