J. Tillman Quotes
When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.
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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
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People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
