Jack London Quotes
My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.
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The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who calls attention to his style, is like the farmer who devotes his energies to polishing farm implements and never uses them.
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Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.
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I want to love life.
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I love SXSW. I've made three films; they've all premiered at SXSW.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
