James Jeans Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.
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I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'
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I used to wish that I could write songs, like the others-and I've tried, but I just can't. I can get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune the others always say it sounds like such-a-thing, and when they point it out, I see what they mean.
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Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.
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One must stand stiller than still.
