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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Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
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Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
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I grew up with a single mother who brought us up. I always look back at my career, and everything that has happened to me is because of the support of women. My mother, my sister, Michelle Obama, Kate Middleton - all these women have believed in my designs and worn them and given me a platform to increase my visibility.
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«¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?»
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Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.
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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.
