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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie DeShannon
You
Strong
Passion
Own
Our
About
Geniuses
Advised
Because
Very
Just
Just Because
So-Called
Want
Agenda
Standards
Right
Set
To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.
Jacque Fresco
Future
Own
Enough
Everything
Willing
Must
New
Like
Concepts
Foreign
Test
Foreign Land
Information
Land
Acquire
Means
Evaluate
Who
Prepare
Compare
Travelers
Hometown
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Freedom
Dignity
Denial
Collective
Own
Society
Our
Both
Individual
Self-Denial
Vulnerable
Becomes
Deny
Human
Human Dignity
Poor
Capacity
Choice
Levels
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
James Agee
Confusion
Own
Would
Examine
My Own
Consume
Attempt
Volumes
Mere
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock
Life
Dance
Own
Changes
Earth
Evolution
Emerges
More
Entity
Purposes
Environment
Clearly
Coupled
Partners
Does
Tightly
Material
Than
Adapt
We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.
James Redfield
Work
Own
Negativity
Our
Security
Vulnerability
Transcend
Inner
The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.
James Woods
Own
Control
Destiny
Bottom
Bottom Line
Line
Your
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
Own
Aim
Distinction
Destroys
Dress
About
Excessive
Times
Frivolous
Often
One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.
Jason Priestley
Experience
Yourself
Own
Totally
About
Something
Outside
Wrong
Stepping
Commit
Being
Your
Fun
Fun Things
Actor
Challenging
Things
Core
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
Jason Reitman
Family
Me
Relationship
You
Strange
Youth
World
Feeling
Narcissism
Own
Skin
Those
Having
Uncomfortable
True
Feel
Around
Selfishness
Childhood
Being
Really
Your
Connected
Things
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
Jay-Z
Beginning
Own
Record
Record Deal
Give
My Own
Like
Forced
Because
Deal
Up
Get
Trying
Artist
Either
CEO
Create
Hard
Businessman
Company
Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?
Jay Livingston
Mother
Will
Own
Rich
My Own
Handsome
Children
Ask
Now
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Experience
People
Own
Other
Adding
Some
Absorb
Question
Personalities
Acting
Your
What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Jeanette Winterson
Own
Our
Crucial
Invisible
Also
Well-Being
Us
I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
Jeff Koons
Life
Art
Freedom
Me
Courage
Own
Believe
Has-Been
Parameters
About
Give
Give Me
My Own
Vehicle
Exercise
Been
Expanding
Enlightenment
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
Jeff Perry
Character
Own
Respond
Minor
Feel
Themselves
Aspects
Disparate
Even
Actor
Things
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
Jeffrey Jones
Nature
You
Experience
Old
Bad Things
Become
Own
Bad
About
My Own
Only
Generalizations
Feel
Days
Know
How
Making
Personal
Personal Experience
Want
Old Days
Personally
Cyclical
Comparison
Things
Start
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
Jello Biafra
You
Drunk
Greed
Own
Believe
Once
Lies
Only
Involved
Get
Litigation
Your
Start
We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It's the same person doing the same thing, but because we are viewing them from our own unique perspectives, they mirror back to us something different.
Jen Sincero
You
Brilliant
Example
Mirror
Hilarious
Own
Same Thing
Relate
Others
Back
Our
Those
Ourselves
Find
Someone
Something
Only
Could
For Example
Annoying
Because
Idiotic
Doing
Person
Same
Different
Them
Us
Perspectives
Notice
Viewing
Unique
Thing
Things
My father taught me you have to believe in yourself and run on your own track.
Jennifer Grey
Me
You
Yourself
Believe In Yourself
Father
Own
Believe
Run
Track
Taught
Your
I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Life
You
Value
Own
Personal Life
Nice
Enough
Mine
Promote
About
Feel
Like
Talk
Sell
Trying
Personal
Just
Want
Movie
Use
Your
Things
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Jerome K. Jerome
Health
Own
Our
Drink
Spoil
Another
New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.
Jerry Jeff Walker
You
Own
Think
Way
One Thing
Tempo
New
Like
Another
Texans
Lot
Texas
Very
York
Same
New York
New Yorkers
Much
Speaking
Thing
It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.
Jessica Raine
Beautiful
Good
Own
Imagination
Teens
Bored
Makes
Got
Idyllic
Lot
Surrounded
Very
Hit
Childhood
Being
Landscapes
Your
Utterly
Stretch
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth
Mind
Own
Unknown
See
Absolute
Clearly
Know
Surely
Very
Quietness
Cannot
Incapacity
People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.
Jillian Michaels
Good
Me
Business
People
Own
Minding
About
My Own
Know
Doing
Very
Thing
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