James Allen Quotes
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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'… talk should precede, not follow, the issuance of orders.'
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
