J. G. Holland Quotes
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.
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If you're in a job that you hate, don't be scared of seeking out something that might be riskier. Anything can turn into something with passion and hard work.
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And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
