James Cash Penney Quotes
The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
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Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
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My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.
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The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.
