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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I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.
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Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
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And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
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Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!
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Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.
