James Fallows Quotes
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
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You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
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I'm a good friend.
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What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.
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In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
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The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.
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'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'
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You are my fav'rite star, My haven in heaven above, You are ev'rything I love.
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone for ever. And I hope they are. I hated those strident tones that you still hear from some Women's Libbers'.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
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There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
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I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.
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When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
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There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
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I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise - you'd think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.
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I will never forget standing with fellow members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol to sing 'God Bless America' on the night of 9/11.
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Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
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I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
