William Carey Jones Quotes
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.
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When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.
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Once in a while I do put up a video or a thank you tweet for my fans. I think our interaction cements our bond. Getting so much love from them makes me feel blessed.
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I want to win a ring. I want to have an opportunity to get back to the Finals, but I just have to take it one day at a time, and understand that it can happen -- and I always believe it. Once I stop believing the goal can be accomplished, there is no need to keep dressing up every night. All that matters is us getting into the playoffs, because then, anything can happen.
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I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.
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I'm not sure I'm a good cook. But I like cooking, and it's a real family thing - an expression of love being together.
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar
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I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.
