Bill T. Jones Quotes
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.
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Information overload hampers our ability to understand novelty when we see it.
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I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think that's reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.
