James Lapine Quotes
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
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There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.
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I love 'The Shining.' Kubrick is pretty amazing.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Amandla Stenberg is so powerful in her energy and what she speaks about and what she projects. I think it's incredible.
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No parent should have their child die before he or she does.
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Meryl Streep's really smart, and she's a film animal, and she knows that.
