James Fallows Quotes
I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'
