J. J. Abrams Quotes
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
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In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
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What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
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You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
