Jim Croce Quotes
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.
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I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
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Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
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The laws of logic do not prescribe the way our minds think; they prescribe the way our minds ought to think.
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'How strange,' continued the king, with some asperity; 'the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.''
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There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried
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When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.
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It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.
