James McGreevey Quotes
I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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A novel is not an allegory ... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.
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I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
