James Caan Quotes
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
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Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
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Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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You're a fucking bitch. I'm going to destroy you.
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I’ve lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.
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Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.Lead us lest too far we wander.Love's sweet voice is calling yonder.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.
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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
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You have to be very careful when you let someone win.
