James Altucher Quotes
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
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Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.
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I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'
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I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
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We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
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I work twice as hard as everybody else.
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Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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So enough with the bigotry and bombast. Donald Trump's not offering real change. He's offering empty promises.
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If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.
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You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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Food is a big part of my life.
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.
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The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
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Games are all about taking risks.
