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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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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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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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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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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There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
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I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.
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I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'
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At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.
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I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.
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Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.
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I'll never be a weightlifter.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
