James Herriot Quotes
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
Quotes to Explore
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.
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There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.
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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
