James Laughlin Quotes
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.
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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
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For me, the best way to unwind at the end of the day while I'm pregnant is to take a nice, long soak. I get in my bathtub, download a show onto my computer, prop it up on a chair, and just lie there watching and relaxing.
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The movie I worked on that had the most problems and interference came from the smallest indie movie I've ever done. I couldn't believe what the director had to go through; he was destroyed.
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In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
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With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
