James Lapine Quotes
I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I like being unconventional.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.
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I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.
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I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.
