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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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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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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If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.
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We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
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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.
