Jim Adkins Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.
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The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
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If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.
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The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.
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The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
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Cork offers Amazon the ability to provide our customers with multi-lingual support, something that is critically important as we continue to grow our business.
