James Addison Baker Quotes
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
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Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
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I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
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In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.
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'Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,' said Japhy. 'Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.'
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Since kindergarten, I was the shortest kid in class. They always put me toward the front in school pictures, because you couldn't see me if I was in the back. It was kind of funny.
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If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
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I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
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After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
