Leslie Jamison Quotes
It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.
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A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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We trolls say: 'Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.'
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The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.
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There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
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I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.
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I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
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It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.
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It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.
