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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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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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 am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.
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In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
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What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
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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.
