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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Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
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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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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.
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It's just good to be back in the locker room
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Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
