James Dean Quotes
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
Quotes to Explore
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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I want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.
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Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.
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The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools
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It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
