James Langevin Quotes
My work in government has flowed from the fundamental idea of personal empowerment. It's about giving people the tools they need to pave their own way.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
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With workout classes, I always want to know that I can improve with each class I take. But I don't think I'll ever master the art of peddling quickly with little resistance, at least not without feeling like I'm going to fly off the bike.
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My work in government has flowed from the fundamental idea of personal empowerment. It's about giving people the tools they need to pave their own way.
