Jimi Hendrix Quotes
The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.
Quotes to Explore
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don't have nerves because of that natural affinity.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
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If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.
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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.
