Edward P. Jones Quotes
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
Quotes to Explore
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
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I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.
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Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
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I love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit.
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I think I'll stop here.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.
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Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
