Bill Jay Quotes
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
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I love Canada.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...
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When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.
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Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.
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That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
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It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
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The truth seemed to be that a revolutionary army anywhere was always in danger of becoming too puritanical, rather than the contrary.
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We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest national security threats facing the United States right now are not in the Middle East. They are domestic.
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There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
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I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.
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Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?
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At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.
