James E. Gunn Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
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The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.
