James Joyce Quotes
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Quotes to Explore
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
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When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
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Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
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I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.
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Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?
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Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
