James A. Garfield Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.
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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
