James Fallows Quotes
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
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There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'
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When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
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Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.
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I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
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There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.
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There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
