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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I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.
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I booked a horror film called 'Where the Devil Hides.' It's... you know, a horror film. But it was the first full-length movie I'd ever done, and it got me my visa, and I could start work.
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I dedicated my career to really working in under-served communities and really just being in the trenches.
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What is Twitter?! I don't know what Twitter is! Everyone keeps inviting me to Twitter and everyone's going on about twittering and tweeting and this whole thing, and I just don't understand it.
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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.
