James Allen McCune Quotes
I had dreams of being chased by a creature down an alleyway on a regular basis. I'd have dreams of being ripped apart.
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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If I could play any superhero... my favorite superhero is Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield is wonderful at doing it to the point that I don't think I should play it.
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No one looks stupid when they're having fun.
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My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter. I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.
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America gave me the opportunity to open successful restaurants, start a TV show, and write books. I can even fill an auditorium when I give a speech, which in America is rare for a chef.
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I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.
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I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.
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I had dreams of being chased by a creature down an alleyway on a regular basis. I'd have dreams of being ripped apart.
