James MacArthur Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
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For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.
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I have to write. I have to be an artist.
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I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'
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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
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And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
