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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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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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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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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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa's single voice may be heard, within which Africa's problems may be studied and resolved.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
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It doesn't matter if there are 20, 40, 100, or 500 people there. It doesn't matter how many people. You've got to perform to those people because they've come.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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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.
