James Altucher Quotes
If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
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I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
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I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.
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I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
