James MacArthur Quotes
Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
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I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You listen to it and are like, 'What is happening?' It's this blizzard of notes in weird time signatures, and they're trying to teach you that.
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Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
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I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
