Edward P. Jones Quotes
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
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Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
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Words are all we have.
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The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.
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But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.
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Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.
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Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
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I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.'
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In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.
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Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend
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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
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I just tend to date straight girls. That's my problem: I'm a turner.
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I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.
