James Lapine Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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The Raves of Thrones parties started in Australia and has since spread all over the world. However, no one does it like the Aussies.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.
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Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.
