J. Ivy Quotes
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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For better or worse, poetry is my life.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
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I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.
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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
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Poetry became my doctor, my lover.
