James Goldsmith Quotes

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

James Goldsmith

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

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• For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

  

  Naomi Judd
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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

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• There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

  

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• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

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• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

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• I'm really tired of virtue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

  

  Vera Wang
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  • Style
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• I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.

  

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• Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

  

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• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

  Adam Driver
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• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

  

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• There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

  

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• Every generation finds the drug it needs.

  

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• An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.

  

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• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.

  

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  • Deep
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• We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.

  

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  • Hope

• If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

  

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• The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

  

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• In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.

  

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• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

  

  James Goldsmith
  • Tolerance