James Altucher Quotes
I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.James Altucher
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti -
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson -
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
Zadie Smith -
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
Tariq Ali -
Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
Tammin Sursok -
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
Rachel Kushner
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
Ursula Burns -
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson -
If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
Rachel True -
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
Dan Harmon -
I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
Barry Mann -
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
Dallas Willard -
People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
Zac Posen -
If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
Jack Dee -
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
Otis Redding -
I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
Forest Whitaker
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I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.
Dylan Moran -
Sometimes I have a sense of what I'm seeing being a small fraction of what's there. Not always there, but probably more often than I realize. Something will come up, and I'll realize I'm thinking about the world a little differently than my friends.
Lisa Randall -
I think we have lost track of a core Republican principle of limited government and balancing budgets and restraining federal spending. We have got to change the system.
Sam Brownback -
I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.
John Allison -
Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
James Altucher