James Blake Quotes
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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Value is what you get.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
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Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
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When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
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I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?
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I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
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I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.
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The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
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Faith is a very powerful force in the history of humanity. So I greatly respect different kinds of faith. Just as I think diversity is a really good thing genetically, it's also a good thing societally.
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Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
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The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.
