James Lipton Quotes
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
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I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.