James Altucher Quotes
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I have a great office.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end. It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out of life, It cut down evil’s strangling vines, Like a slashing searing knife.
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This is the best job in television. I grew up watching the 'Today show.'
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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Country has become too homogenized and too commercial. It has lost what makes it special. It's great that it's popular, but then it starts to become watered down.
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Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
