James Lapine Quotes
It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so interwoven. I've always been a sucker for that.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Putin is like Al Capone.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.
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Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.
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It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.
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Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.
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I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?
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It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so interwoven. I've always been a sucker for that.
