Thomas J. Sargent Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I like happy endings.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I like children - fried.
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I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.
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What I really don't like is oversimplification.
