James Geary Quotes
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
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When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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What troubles me about the 'hostile workplace' category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
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If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someone who 'gets' cancer. I am a sun worshipper who never thought it could happen to me.
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Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
