Jon Stevens Quotes
But I also hope it shows to anyone else in that situation that you have to hang in there… Hang in there because there is a light at the end of the tunnel – no matter how small that light may look from where you are. Things do change no matter how dark a place you are in… it really does change eventually.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.
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A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.
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But I also hope it shows to anyone else in that situation that you have to hang in there… Hang in there because there is a light at the end of the tunnel – no matter how small that light may look from where you are. Things do change no matter how dark a place you are in… it really does change eventually.
