Finn Jones Quotes
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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People take things so seriously.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.
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I was always inquisitive as a child, ... I always knocked on doors to find out what could be possible.
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When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
