James Agate Quotes
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.
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I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.
