Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
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There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
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I listen to older music like AC/DC.
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Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
