James Agate Quotes
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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You have to be in the right place at the right time and understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
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America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.
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It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
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Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
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To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
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I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.
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I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.
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My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.
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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
