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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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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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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What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed.
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One night, I just woke up and I went, 'Killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit. My inspiration comes from that. And so I wrote 'Killing Jesus' because I think I was directed to write that.
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You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.
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People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
