J. A. Konrath Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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Mankind should bring together all of its technology and wisdom to work hard so they can development treatments, medicines and vaccines.
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It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
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