"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."

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Source : Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Chuck Jones

#Jobs Quotes #Pay Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.”
“If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.”
“Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.”
“I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.”
“To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.”
“You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we have a player down ? not only the offensive players, but the defensive players. We were very fortunate that we played that well.”
“New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.”
“We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.”

Source : "Jim Caviezel Talks About Playing Christ in 'The Passion'". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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