James Altucher Quotes
You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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A will finds a way.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.
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Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, "Let's do things differently." The majority didn't wake up and say, "Oh, let's just free the slaves." Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time had a better idea and articulated another way. That's simply how evolution works; it's the mutation. The member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they're better adapted for survival.
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You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
