Jay DeMarcus Quotes
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I don't really yell at people.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
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Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
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I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.
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I was raised in church, and we let our kids know who Jesus is.
