James Cagney Quotes
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.
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There are times even I am a bit embarrassed by my look.
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.
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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
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My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
