J. Frank Dobie Quotes
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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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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.
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I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.
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I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
