Tony Evans Quotes
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
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Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.
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Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
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What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.
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Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.
