James Allen Quotes
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
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I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
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When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.
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To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
