Bill Jay Quotes
If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.
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Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
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DK: Have you ever been to a rave? M: Rave is the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
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If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'
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Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.
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I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
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I had the surgery, and it was removed, and I don't have any diverticulitis in me. It's gone. It has taken a number of years to feel good again.
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History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
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It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.
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The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
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The 'natural magic' of the camera obscura anticipated Hollywood in turning the spectacle of the external world into a consumer commodity or package. (p. 146)
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If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.
