James Blaylock Quotes
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I've always been happy with my body.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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I don't think limits.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.
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As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
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Knowing how to die costs a lifetime.
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I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
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[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.
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There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
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Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.
