James Joyce Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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Look, it's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive. It's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive!
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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It's easy to stereotype twins into any role. There's not a lot of great twin roles written, and oftentimes, when there are, they're given to a single actor who green screens themselves into both places.
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In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
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Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
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Your lean jaws grin with. LashYour itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.
