J. J. Abrams Quotes
I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. Abrams
Quotes to Explore
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
V. S. Naipaul
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
Sam Yagan
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
Randy Johnson
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
K. Flay
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No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
Waris Ahluwalia
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Takeshi Kitano
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
Ice T
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
Zig Ziglar
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Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it.
Kym Whitley
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Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.
W. H. Auden
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I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.
Richard Virenque
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For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. Abrams
