James H. Boren Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.
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Mark Wahlberg's, like, 150 pounds! I'm 250 lean. I look like Mark Wahlberg ate Mark Wahlberg.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I was wrapping up my stint on 'Daredevil' co-writing with Andy Diggle during the Shadowland story, when Marvel asked if I was interested in doing something else with DD but a bit different. When they explained the purpose of the 'Season One' books, I was intrigued - I'm a big advocate of books for people new to the medium - and said yes.
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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
