James Joyce Quotes
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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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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
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To simply argue that public spending must always go up and never be cut is irresponsible.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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But toms will till. I know he well.
