James Knowles III Quotes
I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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Customer service is just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate type of activity.
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I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
