James Howell Quotes
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.
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I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.
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Here’s a pot with a cot in a parkIn a park where the peach-blossoms blew,Where the lovers eloped in the dark,Lived, died and were changed into twoBright birds that eternally flewThrough the boughs of the may, as they sang;’T is a tale was undoubtedly trueIn the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'
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The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
