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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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.
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Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.
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I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
