James Luceno Quotes
I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.
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I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.
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Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.
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I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.
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When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
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I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
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Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.
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Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.
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Strangely, although the world is already full of fearful things, mortals seems always to hunt for new worries.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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We can always find creative ways to do things.
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If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not in there at least making an argument that, "Hey, you know what? It's the Democrats who are trying to raise your minimum wage."
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Sometimes you never realise how much of an effect you're having on people until you're told, and the fan mail I receive has made me very aware of the positive effects I have on other people.
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Democracy must learn to defend itself.
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I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
