Mick Jones Quotes
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
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I love thrillers, and I always have.
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Our press is the most disgusting in the world.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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I consider myself a really good racquetball player. I'm sure that I would get waxed by some actually good racquetball players, but I consider myself a pretty versatile athlete.
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I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
