Wes Jackson Quotes
If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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I have died in enough TV and films.
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
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Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.
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Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.
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I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
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I think people get mad because I make more direct records.
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I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from...." I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?
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If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
