Art Donovan Quotes
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Love is the one wild card.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
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I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.
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There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.
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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.
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I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
