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?
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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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.
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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.'
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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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.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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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.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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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.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
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Money doesn`t buy happiness. But happiness isn`t everything.
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Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
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I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
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The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.
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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?
