James Joyce Quotes
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.
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I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
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Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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Talking to a conservative is like talking to your refrigerator... You know, the light goes on, the light goes off; it's not going to do anything that isn't built into it... And I'm not going to talk to a conservative anymore than I talk to my damn refrigerator.
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Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived - my breakfast supplied only two ideas - that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
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Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.
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To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
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I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Loveward above the glancing oar
