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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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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There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.
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A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.
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I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of my life and all my friends' lives and defined our humor, in a way.
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
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Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.
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I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
