Edward P. Jones Quotes
Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Broadway is really my life.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I am not honest.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
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My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
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You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
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'Goodfellas' has kind of got it all. That was probably one of my favorite films as a kid, so I carried a picture of 'Goodfellas' in my wallet.
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I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.
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Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.
