George W. Jenkins Quotes
The circumstances you're born into are not your fault, but it's up to you to climb out of it. Find out who you are, what you want to be and go for it.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.
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What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.
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I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.
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Use your words to lift and inspire. You may just change someone's world.
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Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
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The circumstances you're born into are not your fault, but it's up to you to climb out of it. Find out who you are, what you want to be and go for it.
