James Altucher Quotes
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
Quotes to Explore
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I like things simple.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.
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We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
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I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.
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I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.
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We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.
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People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
