Jay DeMarcus Quotes
My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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Where there is love there is life.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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The aggregation of the spiritual life from the practical life is a curse that falls impartially upon both sides of our existence. A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.
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People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.
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What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.
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As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born. A bureaucracy breaks the complexity down into a series of interlocking systems. You don't need to know how the systems fit together, or even what function your bit of the system has, you just perform your bit and the whole machine creaks on.
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My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.
