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.Cleve Jones
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
Gabriela Sabatini -
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.
Walker Stapleton -
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
Larry King -
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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!
Maimonides -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
Yoko Ono -
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.
Baba Kalyani -
I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
Adam McKay -
I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
Nas -
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.
Eddi Reader -
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson
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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.
Indra Nooyi -
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.
Kate Christensen -
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.
Os Guinness -
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.
Ziggy Marley -
The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.
Wallace Stegner -
What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.
Neil Meron
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
Gary McCord -
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Eric Hoffer -
Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
Cleve Jones