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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and 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?

  

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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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• Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad.

  

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• I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

  

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• I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

  

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• Free-market economics and tolerance for Chinese violations of trade and commercial protocols did not result in either the liberalization or the democratization of China. Over the past two decades, we have been told that the Japanese, the European Union, and the Chinese successively would eclipse America with their respective superior paradigms.

  

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• For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

  

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

  

  James Goldsmith
  • Tolerance