James Gandolfini Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.