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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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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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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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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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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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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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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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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Typography as the first mechanization of a handicraft is itself the perfect instance not of a new knowledge, but of applied knowledge. (p. 171)
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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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I would love to see Regina Spektor, Bjork, and some really cool-sounding festival bands like 'Metric' and 'The Cardigans,' who are one of my favorite bands.
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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.
