James Geary Quotes
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
Quotes to Explore
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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The vehicle-stunt world is so specialized. But when you spend so long in it as a stunt coordinator, you're exposed to all the disciplines, so it's always fun to combine the two ideas - a car chase and a fight scene - and make something more dynamic.
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My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
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I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
