Davy Jones Quotes
America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.
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Teach for America has helped us understand what works and what doesn't.
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Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.
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America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
