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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• 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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• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

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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 think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that.

  

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• I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

  

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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.

  

  James Altucher
  • Science
  • Smart