James Jeans Quotes
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
Quotes to Explore
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
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I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
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I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
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Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
