James MacArthur Quotes
Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.
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Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
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People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
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Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.
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Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.
