James McGreevey Quotes
For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'
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I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!
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In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.
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Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
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Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
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For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.
