Gary Jarman Quotes
When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I always drive like a madman.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
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I always order soup, dessert, and a sandwich or whatever main course. But then the idea is you have to eat such a small portion of it and bring the rest home.
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If the Russians masterminded fraud for 40 years at the highest state level in sports, operating behind the scenes to corrupt sports, what else are they capable of?
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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
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It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
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I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that's where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.
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I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.
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I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.
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Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.
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I wasn't a rebel.
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When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
