Randy Jackson Quotes
When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I think Veblen had an interest in logic.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.
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When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
