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Mike Jones (born 1971) is an American screenwriter and journalist. He serves as the Senior Story and Creative Artist at Pixar Animation Studios and has co-written the studio's animated feature films Soul and Luca. Career Jones was born in San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for film. He began his career as an entertainment journalist working as Filmmaker Magazines Managing Editor and IndieWire's Executive Editor. His first screenplay, EvenHand, was produced in 2001 and screened at the AFI Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and South by Southwest. Jones did an uncredited rewrite of City of Ghosts, directed by Matt Dillon, and has since written scripts for Columbia Pictures, United Artists, HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Fox Searchlight, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”
— Charles Francis Adams Sr., Despatch to Earl Russell at a period of diplomatic tension between the US and Britain during the American Civil War (September 5, 1863); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953, Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
“[t]he laws of war are only as strong as those who insist that they be observed."”
— Peter Karsten, Law, Soldier, And Combat, supra note 55, p. 70; as quoted in as quoted in Kelly Dawn Askin (1997). War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1., p.36.
“I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.”
— Richard Nixon, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger (March 8, 1971), in The New York Times (March 10, 1971), p. 14.
“A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.”
— General William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg.
“The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition.”
— Simeon Weisz, Lord of War.

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Notable quotes

“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”
— Charles Francis Adams Sr., Despatch to Earl Russell at a period of diplomatic tension between the US and Britain during the American Civil War (September 5, 1863); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953, Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
“[t]he laws of war are only as strong as those who insist that they be observed."”
— Peter Karsten, Law, Soldier, And Combat, supra note 55, p. 70; as quoted in as quoted in Kelly Dawn Askin (1997). War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1., p.36.
“I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.”
— Richard Nixon, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger (March 8, 1971), in The New York Times (March 10, 1971), p. 14.
“A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.”
— General William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg.
“The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition.”
— Simeon Weisz, Lord of War.

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Mike Jones across IJR