James Gray Quotes
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
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I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
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I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
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If you can’t feel it, it must be real.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
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A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
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You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.
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Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
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Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
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You just can't make up random information and say it sarcastically and have it make sense. You can't just be like, 'I went out on a date with a Jewish girl. She was more rude than a wolfcat - an animal I've made up and decided is rude.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.
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The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
