James Caan Quotes
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.
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I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.
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Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.
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There's this idea out there that, had I not been trans, the leaks and stuff would never have happened. But to my mind, those are two completely separate things. Had I been out, I think I still would have been attracted to the military, but I would have been more comfortable and gotten along with people better.
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The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.
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The most talented people that I've met in this business are always the nicest.
