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 spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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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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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.
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That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.
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Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.
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There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
