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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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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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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I never was a very good singer.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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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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A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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I am happy to be running a public sector bank. In times of stress, most people will always have an account with us, so, to the extent that it gives stability and faith for the people and because banking is a business of trust, it is a major advantage we have.
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
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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.
