James Douglas Quotes
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.
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A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.
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When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
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It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.
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I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
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I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
