Bill Jay Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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Every day, when my feet hit the ground, I have a story that I'm telling myself that I choose to make a positive story. I know people who don't do that, and there's a heavy energy around them. So I guess there's that kind of hustling.
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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of
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The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.
