James Geary Quotes
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to write 'A Soldier's Story,' among other things. I realized, 'Oh, I can be anything doing this.'
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When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
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It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.
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I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
