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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I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.
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According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.
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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
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Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
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As ambassador, I am focused on expanding bilateral trade and investment between the United States and Spain.
