Jon Pardi Quotes
I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different.
Quotes to Explore
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I get homesick.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
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In 2014, topics like Black Lives Matter, the Middle East, and Ebola were prominent in the national discussion, with mentions of then-President Barack Obama making up a relatively small slice of the discussion on news twitter.
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My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
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It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
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I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different.
