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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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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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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Obedience is the fruit of faith.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
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Veterans come from all walks of life, and they live in small towns and big cities, in red states and blue states.
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I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
