J. Frank Dobie Quotes
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader.
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I thought it was really odd at how much people freaked out at Katrina. You'd think they'd be worried about something important. 'Oh my God, look! George Bush is just appointing all his friends into office and we're in an unfounded war...' But no- 'Fuck that! That nigger's stealing some potato chips!'
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I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
