James Marsden Quotes
If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I always drive like a madman.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.
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Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.
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With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.
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We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.
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There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.
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If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.
