Eddie Charles Jones Quotes
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars -- invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!!
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.
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If he's worried about this he would have retired five years ago.
