William George Jordan Quotes
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.
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On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.
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Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
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Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
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I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
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For me, music gives a voice to fashion.
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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
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If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
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I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.
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In a weird way, hockey is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.
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There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
