James O'Shaughnessy Quotes
It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
Quotes to Explore
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I know what poverty is.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'
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Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
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I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
