Edward P. Jones Quotes

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Edward P. Jones

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I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

MoviesKindHorrorCatScaredStuff

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

Sonny Rollins

WorkGreatDeathSmallMusicians

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Steven Gerrard

MomentFootballThinkSquadMore

I operate on the assumption that as a member of Congress, presently, I represent everybody - Republicans, Democrats, independents and, yes, some people who don't care to participate.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

PeopleCareCongressSome PeopleYes

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.

Roger Ailes

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You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

Mike Nichols

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Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

Jules Verne

ScienceGreatArtSimpleHumanity

I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.

Jonathan Franklin

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I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

Corrine Brown

PeopleSurvivalEnjoyNeedFlorida

For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt I have. So I'm putting it on.'

Austan Goolsbee

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I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me.

SZA

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I own two species of the raptors - Falco peregrinus and Falco biarmicus.

Shahid Khan

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