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.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• '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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
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  • American

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• 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.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• 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.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
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  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Work
  • Job
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• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Years
  • Youth
  • Worship

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Song
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• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• 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.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

  

  Valerie June
  • True
  • Myself
  • Path

• I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Picture

• I'm a natural puzzle solver.

  

  Duncan Jones

• NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

  

  Alan Arkin
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  • Done
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• He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Perfect
  • Cool
  • Smart

• It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
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  • Mistake

• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
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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