Evan Jones Quotes
But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.
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Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using joy as a weapon because joy is the best weapon against oppression; it's the best weapon against depression.
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.
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Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.
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But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.
