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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I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown.
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Why, why, why? Because it's all logic and reason now! Science, progress, chip-chip... Laws of hydraulics, laws of social dynamics, laws of this, that and the other... No place for three legged Cyclops in the South Seas... no place for cucumber trees and oceans of vine... no place for me!
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Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
