Bishop Noel Jones Quotes
Financial discipline demands that you have a budget. Control your money. Do not let money control you. Discipline yourself to make sure that the flow of your money is gong in the right direction at all times.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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Netflix, I love you.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
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'The democratization of luxury means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
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The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.
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The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
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I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.
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I think that's the biggest misconception - that in order for me to be sexy I have to make sure my boobs are out.
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Generals are not to be too scrupulous.
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What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.
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I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
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Financial discipline demands that you have a budget. Control your money. Do not let money control you. Discipline yourself to make sure that the flow of your money is gong in the right direction at all times.
