Mick Jagger Quotes
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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My father was a lawyer.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
