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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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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We'll break America, we've been there every year for five years. We'll make it, because we're good and if something's good there are enough cool people in the States to pick up on it. We'll do it and we'll do it the right way...our way.
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This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
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I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun.
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Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.
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Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
