Kevin Jorgeson Quotes
I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. I don't only listen to the guitar player.
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In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.
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I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that.
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I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.
