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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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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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!
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What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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We had hoped to celebrate the Israeli democracy today in a different atmosphere, and now we are again forced to cope with murderous terror. The government of Israel will do what must be done in order to deal with the terrorists and those who dispatch them.
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I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
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Each of our senses makes its own space, but no sense can function in isolation. Only as sight relates the touch, or kinaesthesia, or sound, can the eye see.
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Things don't get any easier by putting them off.
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Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
