James Agate Quotes
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Quotes to Explore
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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It is as though a puzzle could be put together simply by shaking its pieces.
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We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.
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I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
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The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
