James Clavell Quotes

Your daddy had to go back to school a little. He had some strange thoughts - and he wanted other grown-ups to believe them. It's not right for others to believe wrong thoughts, is it?

James Clavell

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• I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.

  

  Dan Coats
  • People
  • American
  • Voting

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Very

• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Important
  • Song
  • Meaning

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Time
  • Place
  • Individual

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Christian
  • Years
  • Favourite

• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Try

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • American
  • History

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Fun
  • Star
  • Grew

• I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

  

  Jay Parini
  • History

• As Americans, we're raised with this idea of, 'We're number one.' As an individual, you absorb and you consume until you skyrocket to the top with your money and your whatever. That's not my philosophy. My philosophy is quite the opposite in that there's limited space, we have limited resources, and so it's not about the individual.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • Money
  • Space

• When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Opportunity

• There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Your daddy had to go back to school a little. He had some strange thoughts - and he wanted other grown-ups to believe them. It's not right for others to believe wrong thoughts, is it?

  

  James Clavell
  • Believe
  • School
  • Thoughts