James Altucher Quotes
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
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Sometimes it's good to remember who you are outside of work.
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I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.
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Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
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Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.
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When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
