Deacon Jones Quotes
I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.
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My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
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My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.
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I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.
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But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.
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Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.
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I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.
