James Allen Quotes
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
Quotes to Explore
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
