Al Jardine Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
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I often feel like Facebook is a giant friend portfolio, and sometimes it can be a much more socially appropriate way of contacting a person as compared with texting or telephone. And never mind the fact that it's integrated into the iPhone. Makes me crazy in a super good way.
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I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.
