James B. Stewart Quotes
The A.M.T. is much reviled by tax experts across the political spectrum for its unintended consequences and fiendish complexity.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.
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Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
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I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too. But personal living and personal loving are the two things the Eastern-type wise men don't think about.
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While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.
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The A.M.T. is much reviled by tax experts across the political spectrum for its unintended consequences and fiendish complexity.
