Jack Wagner Quotes
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
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My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.
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I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.
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Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.
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I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
