Edward P. Jones Quotes
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I got no hate in me.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.
