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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I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
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If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?
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Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.
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Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.
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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
