James Costos Quotes
As ambassador, I am focused on expanding bilateral trade and investment between the United States and Spain.

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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
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We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for independence - and that, or extermination, we will have.
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I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!
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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.
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As ambassador, I am focused on expanding bilateral trade and investment between the United States and Spain.