Cobi Jones Quotes
That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.
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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.
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The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite a soft voice, so that didn't help.
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When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
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The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
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That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.
