James Gray Quotes
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
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I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
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There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.
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I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.
