Jack London Quotes
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I always played to win.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I want to play until the end.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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My mother was a seamstress, so I always grew up with her making clothes. I knew how to construct outfits. I knew how to sketch. I knew how to customise. But I could never imagine it as a career.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
