Bill Jay Quotes
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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There is, with any great artist, a little manic-ness and insanity.
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.
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I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.
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As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic weapon; they've violated numerous United Nations sanctions, U.S. sanctions by launching ballistic missile tests.
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Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.
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I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.
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I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.
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The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
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Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.
