James Altucher Quotes
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
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If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
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About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
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We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time.
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It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.
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Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.
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WHETHER YOU'VE GOT $20 TO SPEND IN TOPSHOP OR $2.000 TO SPEND AT GUCCI, LOOKING GOOD ISN'T ABOUT MONEY. IT’S ABOUT STYLE, AND STYLE NEVER GOES OUT OF FASHION.
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Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
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I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
