James G. Frazer Quotes
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
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When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.
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I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.
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A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
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The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
