James Goldsmith Quotes
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.
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I love Westerns!
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
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I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
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The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.
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The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way…
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.
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We will be all about the local, not the global.
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In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
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I fall asleep feeling beautiful. Then, in the morning, before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like 'You have really pretty eyes.' That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence. It's a feel-good protein shake in my back pocket in case someone messes with me that day.
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The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
