James Joyce Quotes
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
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For eight months, from January to August of 2007, I filmed with Anna Wintour and her team at 'Vogue' as they created the September 2007 issue of the magazine.
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
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The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
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By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.
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Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.
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The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
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I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.
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'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry (115.36)
