Jeff Waters Quotes
I live in a beautiful country; a beautiful city and I have a beautiful family.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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I've done 70 different characters on my podcast. But in terms of characters that I revisit a lot, I think there are 10 that I know more in-depth.
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Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.
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Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.
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My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
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I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever.
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'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.
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Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.
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I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
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I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
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In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.
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I didn't start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a platform where new musicians can have the chance to get into a studio, work with each other, and get their music noticed by a large audience.
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I live in a beautiful country; a beautiful city and I have a beautiful family.
