James Ellroy Quotes
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
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Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.
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If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
