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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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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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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I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.
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I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
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Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.
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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.
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After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded.
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I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
