Homer Quotes
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
