Cleve Jones Quotes
Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
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Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Nobody escapes during Lisa Lampanelli's show.
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When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."
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Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
