James Collins Quotes
The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
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To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.
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You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
