James Caan Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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I love bayou life.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
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Boone gulped and swallowed. He spoke to The Hat. 'You said the Highway to Eternity?' That is not what I said. I said the Highway of Eternity.'Small difference,' Boone told him. Not so small as you might think.
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
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There's always competitors out there, one way or another.
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Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.
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People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.
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I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
