Cobi Jones Quotes
I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside.
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Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
