Dale Jamieson Quotes
Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and approaching that kind of question in an open-minded and open-hearted way, receptive to a broad range of considerations and interests of other people and other things.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
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Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
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I believe in my writing.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.
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Fortunately, the scoring problem seems to have not had any major effect on students.
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We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.
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Everything in food works together to create health or disease.
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Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and approaching that kind of question in an open-minded and open-hearted way, receptive to a broad range of considerations and interests of other people and other things.
