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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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I feel like the more real we are, the more people will respect that.
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I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
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The government will improve the economy in Taiwan with full force.
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Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.
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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.
