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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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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The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there - it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
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I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.
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I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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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.
