James Fallows Quotes
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
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In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open windows. We pull down a screen. We stretch a screen. We scroll up and down.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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I'm really excited to build an experience for the receivers. Many of the senders are also receivers, but we initially built the product really for the sender be able to invite their guests, and we didn't have really any receiver experience.
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When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.
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Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
