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.

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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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If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
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It’s a sad thing that the march of time and evolution of mores can rob one of the ability to laugh at simple domestic abuse.
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Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.
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Unfortunately it's a problem that's only going to get worse.
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The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.
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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.