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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Throughout the day, I'm always thinking about 500, the team, and how we can do things harder/better/faster/stronger.
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When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me.
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There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'
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I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.
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I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'
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If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
