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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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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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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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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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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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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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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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
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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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In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
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There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
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And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.
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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
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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.
